Thursday [17 till close of play]

(1715). Evening all. Strange old day.

23.  A little number you might like from 1851

22.  Toodles

21.  There’s something happening outside

… which to my mind trumps all the sumptuous music, artistic and architectural delights and the beautifully photographed clouds over country lanes on social media today … and that’s nature herself for the last forty-five minutes from my window. The issue is how to put it into words … perhaps you have similar where you are.

For a start, post rush-hour, it went fairly quiet and that time arrived, once per day … only if the sun breaks through, mind … when everything out there glows … everything, even two miles away … buildings shine, buildings it never registered were actually there before. 

The red brick opposite intensely, brightly glows right now, all looks shiny new … the clouds themselves are silhouetted, lit as if by spotlights … dark, brooding nimbus, white cumulus, jagged cirrus … and as if on cue, the birds crossing our line of vision are also brightly lit and glistening as they slowly flap wings …

I swear someone needs to capture this scene, fast fading now, dusk is nigh because the whole atmosphere has gone silent in an apocalyptic way … I can certainly imagine some concert in the distance with an opera tenor belting out that last crescendo … would make a smashing filum finale.

Even at this second, that fierce redbrick glow opposite fades and the walls are once again dull … I gaze from left to right across the field of vision, from one end of the valley to t’other.

Readers … this has a most apocalyptic feel to it, as if it were the end of an era, or even of civilisation … amazing sight out there … and then it’s over … red sky darkening.

Oh wow … now a rainbow from the other side of the valley, arcing over our house but lost in angry dark clouds … raindrops on the window panes.

20.  Have a good evening

Apologies for that last one … our classicists tearing their remaining hair out … I liked it. :)

19.  Been thickening cream

Apart from that, I was revisiting some “music” which I must not assume is not your cuppa cha but it might not be. 

It was from a time, a circle I was mixing with where everything was highly stylised, even high camp, evening sophistication, outfits, where the jazz was supper clubbish and the atmosphere chill.

Had to choose three songs from those on the left … two selected themselves … the besame mucho and the rigoletto … but the third, to go in the middle, was far more difficult … avoiding over fixation on the underdressed femme, keeping to the evening mood, avoiding crooning and latin singing.

We’ve already had una rosa and Jamaican … chorus just going oooo oooo all the way through.

So, think it might be memories. Coming up.

18.  Some more

17.  Steve

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