No.206

WISE MEN SAY

Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.
(Sam Sundquist)

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THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS

This photo probably dates from around 1900 - a time when a man with a camera always attracted a crowd



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POETRY FOR PLEASURE

Fairies’ Song
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

We the fairies blithe and antic,
Of dimensions not gigantic,
Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

When to bed the world is bobbing,
Then’s the time for orchard robbing,
Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling,
Were it not for stealing, stealing.

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JOHN’S GALLERY

Landers Peak
by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

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DO YOU REMEMBER

Housewives’ Choice

This was a daily record request programme on the BBC Light Programme broadcast from 1946 to 1967. The signature tune was “in Party Mood” by Jack Strachey and it’s played here by the West End Celebrity Orchestra. Uploaded by markh5682



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A QUOTE FOR 80 PLUS

There is absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to be legislation against it. (Patrick Moore)

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Tomorrow 80 plus Music Mix includes a clip from Showboat of Paul Robeson singing “Old Man River.”
http://80plusmusicmix.blogspot.com

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