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St Swithin's Day

  • Jul. 15th, 2005 at 9:40 AM
Brush the wandering hedgehog by the fire

In today's Guardian:
Laura Barton on London's buses
A letter to the terrorists, from Hassan, a young Muslim born and raised in York

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A quintessentially summer-time thing on my walks between home and the Tube station is the swooping and darting swallows with their characteristic but hard to describe noise - it's not a song, it's shrill but pleasant, it's not quite a twitter. And the phenomenon of emerging from the subterranean depths (I travel on one of the deeper lines) to this reminded me of the war-poem by Isaac Rosenberg (an East End lad), 'Returning, we hear the larks':

Death could drop from the dark
As easily as song -
But song only dropped

and I recall that I have not heard any buskers lately in the stations where they usually play.

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And in other news, on Monday Woman's Hour (BBC Radio 4) is doing a special programme for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Family Planning Association, to which I shall be contributing my (live) tuppence-worth.

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[info]chickenfeet2003 wrote:
Jul. 15th, 2005 11:01 am (UTC)
I love Rosenberg, especially Break of Day in the Trenches

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[info]coughingbear wrote:
Jul. 15th, 2005 06:50 pm (UTC)
Shall make sure I listen on Monday.

There was a busker at Euston this morning, and I realised it was the first one I've seen since last week.
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[info]amaliedageek wrote:
Jul. 19th, 2005 05:07 pm (UTC)
Good heavens, what is that song at the beginning of the programme?

Have I mentioned lately that the Internet radio is the best gift I've ever given The Husband?
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[info]oursin wrote:
Jul. 19th, 2005 06:58 pm (UTC)
One-time music hall star, Lily Morris, singing 'Don't Have Any More, Mrs Moore'.
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