Have just completed six years in the Middle East. I have experienced so many tantalising and perplexing changes during this time and in future there may be a few more posts to pick up where I left off. It’s a long time since the last entry. But worlds continue to collide and I’ve caught up with some significant family, friends and people from the past. They, thankfully, remain engaged in music. This is what brought most of us together and is a really uniting compass. With globalisation the world can at times be rudderless as we tumble and pitch from continent to continent. Takes little more than an eyeblink to move thousands of miles. Once there we tend to build alternative life styles and either exist or embed and remain.