Music: October 21 2012

This track is a classic. A real total classic. This was released a few months after I was born. If you have never heard it … shame on you. Listen to it now. The flute in the middle is exquisite. November 10 1967 – Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues.

My Daughter’s Artwork

My daughter is many things, a great singer, a great photographer, a great poet, an average musician, and a great artist. Although this last one I didn’t realise until she did her art homework a couple of days ago. I have always wanted to be a good artist, but the best I could manage was mediocre – with the occasional flair of panache lol.

She has asked me to take a photograph of it and post it on my blog. I’m hoping that she will post it on her own blog soon too.

John Hurt on A2 card

Postcard from Wales

 

My son is in Wales at the moment with his school. It is the first time he has been so far from me without a member of the family. Normally it is me who goes away and leaves him with his mum.

I went downstairs to get the recycling bin, and found this. Of course, I have removed the address. I was so thrilled to get this

 

A Photo A Day … September 24 2012

 

In 449 AD, Jute Vikings from Denmark set out and headed for England. They arrived in Ebbsfleet 53 days later. The commanders of this ship and others were King brothers Hengist and Horsa. The ship they came in was the Hugin. These Kings were major in the history of Britain. As far as they were concerned, this was their country now and they would defend it with their lives.

These two Kings are buried just outside of Folkestone, UK, in a little town called Newington. Two ferries that used to sail out of Folkestone, before the port was shut down, were named after the Kings with Hengist being the larger ship, and the Horsa being the smaller. In the hurricane of 1987, the Hengist was ripped from its berthing and beached.

In 1949, a replica of the Hugin was given to the town of Ramsgate, and placed at Pegwell Bay.