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After collecting "Vandalf" (our grey campervan) from the garage after a wee upgrade, I decided to sneak in a wee bit of research reading... and a cheeky visit to Chesters Hill Fort, near North Berwick! What a place... and bloody freezing too! The site was probably a Votadini tribal stronghold during the era of #Roman occupation. It is a typical iron age hill fort or 'oppidum' - consisting of several maze-like rings of ditches and troughs, each successively higher, surrounding and protecting a high plateau where the village would have stood. The name "Chesters" derives from the Latin term "Castrum", meaning fortification. P.S. I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the Archaeology forum - mods feel free to move it if it doesn't fit here

I think it was in a music theory lecture that I heard Italian has the ideal ratio of vowels to consonants for singing. French supposedly has vowels too often, and German and perhaps English has consonants too often. Anyway, here are some Reich and Glass minimalist gems from my lost tape archives: