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- Hell and High Water
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- Getting To Grips With Spinoza?
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- Listmania again
- Reptiles - The New Dogs
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- A Corinthian
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- Engulfed
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- Homo Erectus Morphs Again
- Clough (A Day Late)
- Only In Russia?
- Weather Notes from the Sick Bay (and Stubble 4)
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- The Silence of the Nige
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- The BBC Does It Again
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- Irritating Phrases, Anyone?
- How To Do - and Not Do - Things
- The Horror, The Horror
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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.
Nice one Nige, just the ticket after a day mainly spent logging (not on but chopping down)
ReplyDeleteIt followed a Chris Barber session ending in Bad Penny Blues. So shagged can't go out and in any case as a conservative am now deeply concerned about being arrested by the Guardians military enforcers, the plod.
Listen to the lyrics of that song...It's a negro spiritual. I wondered at "don't have to scuff your feet in the jungle" to have enough to eat, but I knew it for sure when he hit the "buckwheat cakes and watermelon." This is about free blacks coming to America. Well, i hope free. Do you know the origin of the lyrics, Nige? Surely not by Randy Newman.
ReplyDeleteYes it's an extraordinary song Susan. I think you could break it down to a slave trader's pitch which steals beauty, lyricism and yearning from negro spiritual - heavily ironic, as always with RN, but here the beauty wins out, I think.
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