On Tuesday, I’ll be at Bright Club, the music/comedy/science chimera held at the Wilmington Arms in Farringdon. Not playing music, but talking about lasers, and possibly Dracula and the late Nigel Hawthorne. But that remains to be seen. See, Bright Club also features people talking about their research, and I’ll have my physicist hat on for this one.

In December, I’m returning as a musician -  the theme then will be Space, so I have less than two weeks to write a set of songs on that theme (I have Lumineferous Aether from The School for Gifted Children, at least that’s a start). I’ve set myself the challenge of recording these as a little EP, and it’ll be available as an early Christmas present for anyone signed up (or signing up) to The Sound of The Ladies mailing list. Watch this space. Possible contenders at the moment include a song about the Voyager probe, and one about the plan to launch a space liner using atomic bombs that I just saw a BBC4 documentary about. And maybe a Stanislaw Lem tribute. But we will see.