Nina's Blog - Wednesday 1st June 2022

Wednesday 1st June 2022, 10:09

Slept in late this morning after last night's exertions :-)

Nothing exciting planned for today. So perhaps it's time to have another go at getting my ears pierced (see https://similarworlds.com/random-subjects/whiteboards/4345991-Ninas-Blog-Sunday-29th-May-2022)

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Wednesday 1st June 2022, 10:31

Listening to Woman's Hour at the moment but before that I listened to a reading of part of Jeremy Paxman's book on coal in which a poem by Stevenson was quoted:

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

Robert Louis Stevenson, from A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)

Interesting, echoes of The Night Mail but written decades earlier.