Jonathan Crowe’s Newsletter

Radon mitigation worked much better than expected in the end.

We’ve had a few things to deal with since my last: nothing we couldn’t manage, but they have required some managing, and it’s been adding up.

A short while ago I got a notification email saying that someone had friended me on Snapchat.

This is the second half of what I’d planned for this edition of the newsletter.

I have now had to reassure three people that I’m not in fact ghosting them or giving them the silent treatment, so let me put this on broadcast: If you’ve been wondering why you haven’t heard from me directly in a while (apart from these newsletters, I me…

Pretzel, our oldest snake (and last remaining corn snake), is somehow still with us.

The piano and myself So a thing happened in the wake of the music festival last spring, the correct response to which was for me to walk away from my piano lessons.

During the last round of freezing rain and wind a neighbour’s tree came down and took out our internet.

I have now seen a draft of the schedule for the Renfrew Rotary Music Festival, which runs from April 23 to 25.

As I threatened last November, the new iteration of my website went live last week.

Pianos, typewriters—basically, if it has a keyboard, I’m in favour of it.

So what’s on my plate this month, now that the holidays are over and we’ve recuperated from that respiratory illness that lingered about three times longer than it should have?

IN THE BEGINNING there was the LETTER, and it was Slow; and there was also the PHONE CALL, which back then got Expensive if it wasn’t local.