Getting Unstalled

Up, toast, coffee times two got me started this morning. Marking, phone calls, admin, meetings kept me occupied. Lunch taken in stages, supper fish pie (my making) out of the freezer and doing this, along with a walk for exercise. As I found a pair of shorts, the knees got an airing. No publishable pix of them, though.

Comments on today, Trump and Johnson, Dr Dettol and Mr Hide.

Words are again failing as we’re moving away too quickly from social distancing. And it seems they’re fudging figures as they go. We’re going to be back in crisis before long.

I will rant again.

From the walk, some more pix.

Music:

In 1953 I was two years old at the time of the Coronation. Plymouth City Centre was being rebuilt. I was taken into town by one of my aunts to W.H.Smiths where there was a large picture of the new Queen. Apparently I said, in an excited, loud two year old’s voice “Auntie, Auntie, there’s Queen Liz, there’s Queen Liz!”. Auntie, who had been telling me this to educate me, apparently cringed with embarrassment as all the other shoppers gave disapproving stares!

As it’s the sixty-seventh anniversary of the coronation today, some music that ws played before, during, and after the service.

George Butterworth (1895-1916), The Banks of Green Willow, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Sir William Walton (1902-1983), Te Deum for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Fremaux.

Sir William Walton (1902-1983), Orb and Sceptre Coronation March (1953), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, David Bell

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), O taste and see, The Cambridge Singers

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Old Hundredth Psalm Tune, Abendmusik Chorus, Plymouth Brass, Stephen Krahn, Sir David Willcocks

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), O Clap Your Hands, VOCES8

Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953), Coronation March, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Sir George Dyson, (1884-1964), Confortare, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox

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