I was surprised to hear  yesterday  that some men ( maybe women too , but on R5live they only spoke to men there) had been queueing for up to 3 days and  nights outside Kings College Cambridge Chapel , to get in to the annual Christmas Eve  boy choristers carol recital ..
Are they closeted paedophiles irresistably allured  to the 'angelic' choirboy image ?
Surely all Cathedral boys choirs are very good , so  what's so special about the Cambridge one , and , why can't Kings College  organise a ballot for tickets ,  to preclude  unwashed folk  who've waited overnight ?
I'm sure that if I was there I'd think , yeah this is quite nice , for 20 minutes before fidgetingly waiting for it to end .
But perhaps their combined voices are uniquely spiritually  pure ... ?
In my early - mid thirties I became quite evangelical about Classical music : And I love some of  it especially  Mozart , Brahms and Bruckner though I seldom listen to much of that  nowadays , and energetic 'dance music' seems to do more for me than any other genre , especially when I need 'waking up ' .
On 'Desert Island  Discs' recently Professor Sir Alec Jeffrey's , who discovered 'dna fingerprinting' said that he was introduced to Ibiza-style dance music by his daughter , and that he likes to listen to it whilst working .
I've been listening to KissFM  , who play a lot of what's now called 'R&B' , which is very different from what that used to mean and I used to  dismiss all that  as 'rap crap' , though I'm now finding that I quite like some of it , not that I'd buy it  .
I've read two 'blog entries here today written by depressed people , and there seems to be something about Christmas that seems to magnify however one's feeling , and it's easy to imagine that everyone else is having a great time which of course is sadly not so .

So I went to to the  Christmas Eve Karaoke Night , at which they stopped serving drinks well before midnight     .
No one was gawping at me as has inexplicably happened there before , and , no hint of anything troublesome .
I'd have been happy to have spent a little  time getting to know  almost  any of the ladies  there ; I briefly chatted with  one , who was I think  there   with her 'partner' .
I was sitting at one end of the bar . At the other end a lady was sat  alone , probably  older than me , and a smoker .
Like me she looked kind of unhappy and serious   though making an effort not to show it  , and she was being chatted up by another single man there .
A  young man was for 20 minutes or so leaning into me far  too closely and enduringly for that  to be accidental , and , though I'm definitely Not into the 'brokeback mountain' stuff  I'd  have   spoken to him if he'd spoken to me  .
So , it was , you know , okay , though  ultimately lonely and a waste of time and money  except that it got me out of the house for an evening . The only person there who I know was in the other bar .
Kauto Star  should easily win the Boxing Day King George race at Kempton , though  odds-on , or even evens about any steeplechaser is dubious  value .