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About Me
- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
The BBC should use it as the six o'clock sackcloth and ashes theme.
ReplyDeletethe wonderful in this tune is the complete opposition between the lyrics and the music...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Ricardo - it expresses that English enjoyment of adversity. We love it - or we used to. Not so sure about now...
ReplyDeletethose were the days, nige. Congratulations , your blog is very good. Here in Brazil our finance minister said yesterday that everything is ok, but today he said the opposite! I made a translation in my blog of the four refrains, if you can read portuguese I think you will like it. To learn portuguese , a plaesure of adversity,isn't it ?
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