Sleepers, Awake!

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Gloria Mundy suffers travel sickness.
Back in a few weeks months.

Suicide Isn't Painless

Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
Is it to be or not to be
And I replied 'oh why ask me?'
And suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
...and you can do the same thing if you please

Shades of M.A.S.H

Here's To 2010

Sonny Terry & Brownie Maghee

Take Your Partner

Once In Royal David's City

Green Islands: 1954

It's sobering to consider the change of pace and the degradation of some aspects of society wreaked in just fifty-five years.  Nowadays the voice-over wouldn't do at all - far too sexist, m'dear.  There were no 'security guards' in high-viz jackets confiscating parents' cameras or demanding to see CRB checks and no-one threatening to arrest the man feeding the ducks on the grounds that he was littering (oh, yes, it did happen).  There's been a collective, national, loss of innocence; progress is essential and wonderful but not at the expense of a country's heart and soul - there are things we can still learn from the past.

Don't Let's Ask For The Yogurt

Lightning Strikes

RIP: Bo

And I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow,

dropping from the veils of the morning

We Live In Hope

Downfall

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Sir Wilfred Thesiger
Dame Freya Stark
The Singing Sands
The Empty Quarter

More Handel

Happy Birthday, Mum

Remembrance Sunday

Sailing By

Horowitz: Pathetique 2nd Movement

More Strauss

Strauss

This was the only snippet I could find on YouTube. Such a disappointment.

Samhain

We were born before the wind,
Also younger than the sun
'Ere the bonnie boat was one
As we sail into the mystic.
(Van Morrison)