Birmingham Opera Company's Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, 2019 Photo by Zoë Challenor “Music already belongs to everyone. The democratic wonder...

Photo credit: Original photo Anh Nguyen, butchered by Zoe Challenor For mothers everywhere this Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 1) ...

monotony," from monotonos "of one and the same tone" It started with us winding the windows down and blasting ABBA out of the car...

I'm going to be a little blunt. Almost every time the subject of singing comes up, which, given my job, is frequently, someone will say...

Today we’re talking about comparative suffering. which I define as - dismissing or belittling your own experience because "someone else...

Photo credit: Tanaphong Toochinda When the Coronavirus pandemic hit Britain in March and lockdown was enforced - something that could be...

Poppy - Seren, age 5 How can we help little ones to make sense of Remembrance Day? A year ago today, I rocked up at Birmingham Hippodrome...

My grandpa taught me many things. He taught me to laugh by putting his beret on his head and calling it his “lid”, or wiggling his...

The idea that we can bypass structural racism if we all just send each other love and light, is being exploded out of the water.

I've spent my whole life in one way or another "finding my voice", and most of my working life helping others to find theirs, and it...

I see you crying at the kitchen sink I see you wondering where your career has gone I see you asking yourself how you are going to pay bills

I'm alternating between being really cross and realising that in their creativity, they've found a way to make their lives all sparkly again

A while ago, Youngest was liberally spraying the bed with eucalyptus essential oil. When asked what she was doing, she said “It’s...

If you’re getting to the end of the day with everyone fed, no-one dead, you need to take a moment to celebrate your own awesomeness.

I opened the garden waste bin to put some chopped branches in, and a beautiful orange tip butterfly fluttered and flew out.

Deciding that “getting some fresh air and exercise” does not qualify as child abuse, we relaxed and carried on

In January 2017 I went to hear our then lodger Roza play a solo harpsichord lunchtime concert.  She played brilliantly.  And something...