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Of nightingales and cellos
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Since I’ve got hooked on Springwatch again, I decided to flick through my copy of Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey. I was re-reading the entry on the nightingale this morning which mentioned the BBC recordings of the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing alongside a nightingale in her garden in Oxted, made in 1927. As you might expect, I had no problem tracking these down on the Interweb. As well as the clip below, I also came across the website for a US radio programme from 2005, Music and Nature, with more information, the recording itself and subsequent recordings, including one made in 1942 of the nightingale accompanied by the slightly less peaceful sounds of RAF bombers on their way to a raid. Fascinating, beautiful, and in the latter case, a little chilling.
What I write about on my blog apparently
Monday, May 11th, 2009
What I write about on my blog apparently, originally uploaded by reynard.
I generated this from Wordle.net — a tag cloud of what I write about on my blog apparently. As you can see, my vocabulary is impressive and varied, with words such as “things” and “good” appearing prominently.
Look out though, because “possibly, Norman’s took mobile”.
18/52 and 19/52
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
My weekly photo project has taken a bit of a bash recently due to various study and other commitments. To be honest I lost count of where I’d got, so here are two I took today. The first is of Bankside by the Tate Modern, using the zoom technique thing and the second was taken inside the Tate. Despite it looking like a photo I took entirely by accident, I did actually mean to take it. Not sure if I really like it, but I do like the way the word “Alchemy” seems to jump out.
![19/52: 09/05/09 [Tate Modern Alchemy]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3342/3516440326_d02fe39d68.jpg)