Oh the lark in the morning / She rises from her nest
And she mounts in the air / With the dew about her breast

(Technical point : that’s a lapwing upstaging the lark at 2:04)

I look forward to being classed a subversive. Will MI5 be monitoring my mazurkas? Will the an dro be driven underground?

Crusty bloomers? That takes on new meaning after Johnson’s recent taunt of the ER crowd.

Will watch out for where they crop up next year. Yes, Bill Caddick still sorely missed, though I have never picked up on how much of an influence he was on the band.
That said, Graeme Taylor must be an excellent addition.

Ah, I went and visited Le Palais Ideal back in 2009. As an avid folly hunter, I honestly welled up slightly on arrival, at last to b there. It is the ne plus ultra, the daddy, the uber-folly.

If it helps, when my brother goes to the barber, he makes the point of saying he is going to get his hairs cut.

It’s the Afterword. I’m kind of proud of them.

Is it cold enough to be wearing shorts yet?

In other news in the i today, I read that Lewis Hamilton is a committed vegan, due to his concerns for the environment. Hmmm.

Genuinely, each time I see one, I go and check the relative sizes of weasel, stoat and ferret, and am usually surprised at which is the larger.
A few months later, the same thing happens, and I am surprised all […]

’tis true, but when they started re-issuing on CD in the 90s, they reverted to the original track-listing, with Reward as a bonus track. My copy remarks somewhat bizarrely that this was from a Japanese […]

Bless my cotton socks, this wasn’t on Kilimanjaro.

In these shoes? I doubt you’d survive.

‘fraid my best song sequence would be to leave Apple Venus exactly as it is. Wouldn’t doubt that Stupidly Happy and Standing in for Joe are better than a couple, but only a couple, of tracks of Apple Venus, but […]

Always felt Crisis? got overlooked. Sister Moonshine: the music is glorious and upbeat, yet the lyrics comprehensively cover the whiny angsty demands of this thread.

Interested to see a shout for The Gentle Good. He was at Folk at the Hall a few years back and it would be good to hear how he’s grown.

And in the folk corner :
The Imagined Village : Empire and Love
Blowzabella : Dance
Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party : Orfeo
Lau : Race the Loser
Karine Polwart : Traces
Simpson Cutting Kerr : Murmurs
Martin […]

He did one of the pre-festival gigs at Sidmouth this year and many went along out of curiosity more than anything else; mostly they came back thoroughly impressed as fans.

Must admit, when I saw the show, I felt there were missed opportunities in using the orchestra to full effect. At the moments when I expected strings to sweep majestically ’cause the music asked for it, the band […]

I have that One Night on Earth lurking somewhere in this room. You have prompted me to dig it out.

Castlemaine? Crikey! I cycled through there some 31 years ago. That’s some way out of town. The locals […]