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Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

A rather obscure film but delightful in its way.

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand 1972

With minimalist production values and little dialog, this romantic fantasy takes place on the barren Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the tumult of her life. She encounters a lighthouse-keeper there and they quickly become lovers. Together they flee to Scotland. One day they are making love on a beach when the lighthouse keeper dies. Things don't get better when he returns from the dead to haunt her.

The Friday Five

1) What has been your favourite job?

2) What did you like about it?

3) How can a kid become like you when they grow up?

4) What safeguards do you use to avoid mistakes?

5) What's changed in the world that you've had a hard time keeping up with?

Medway Visit and CD Finds

A much warmer and sunnier day after yesterday's soaked-out coldness.

I popped over to Hempstead Valley, Medway to do a shopping mall visit, and then Sittingbourne to do a tile company.

I also visited the Sunburst Bookshop and bought eight more classical CDs for two quid -

Dvorak - Quintets Op. 81 & 97 (Supraphon)
Khachaturian - Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto etc (Decca Duo)
Borodin - The Essential Borodin (Decca Duo)
Prokofiev - Ivan The Terrible, Alexander Nevsky, etc (EMI)
John Barry - The Beyondness Of Things (Decca)
Kalinnikov - Symphonies 1 & 2 (Olympia)
Giya Kancheli - Symphonies 3 & 6 (Olympia)
Glazunov - Symphony No. 8, Ballade (Olympia)


Nice listening to do over the weekend.

Lost Cats Brighton

Following is the first paragraph from an email I have received from Lost Cats Brighton:

Dear Michael

I was so very sorry to hear that your dear wife Rosalind had passed away.

I have actually sent you a letter to say how kind of you to think of asking for donations to Lost Cats Brighton in Rosalind's memory. We had received a total amount of £330 to date which is a wonderful amount and will be put towards our vetbills for the foster cats and so much appreciated by all of us here.

My great thanks to any of you who have donated. It means a lot to me

Poem Of The Week

Lullaby

by W.H. Auden



Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:
To lovers as they lie upon
Her tolerant enchanted slope
In their ordinary swoon,
Grave the vision Venus sends
Of supernatural sympathy,
Universal love and hope;
While an abstract insight wakes
Among the glaciers and the rocks
The hermit’s carnal ecstasy.

Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell,
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost,
All the dreaded cards foretell,
Shall be paid, but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought,
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:
Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of welcome show
Eye and knocking heart may bless,
Find the mortal world enough;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers,
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

W. H. Auden, 1937

I So Get This ..

Music For The Night People

Time for some music -

Ruby Colley - The Sea Wrote It

Gavin Bryars - String Quartet No.1

ENJOY

Good Night