Should we be despondent? Is there another crackdown about to happen, as we worry about the spread of the new variant. The future is all a gamble at the moment and we have to take whatever happens in a calm manner. Paul's two boys are coming down next weekend from London and my daughter and granddaughter the following weekend and suddenly everything is up in the air once more.
I came across a good expression to cover the latest royal tittle-tattle, 'Royal Suffering'. How to suffer in a eleven million dollar house, having been bankrolled all your life by your family (but of course it was a wicked family). Short of two bricks? Harry and Meghan are missing a wall for goodness sake.
It is still cold, I need to buy more oil in the middle of May, perhaps it won't be a heatwave because of climate change but a cold wave. Radio 3 on Sunday morning is always full of quiet music and birdsong, just now Butterworth's 'Banks of Green Willow' once a favourite of mine.
Just to add to the general chaos that is always happening in the world my internet keeps beeping off, there is nothing more annoying when typing a long comment for it to fail, sometimes you can go back and capture it.
I would not wish to be royal even if every brick in that wall were gold and the motar made of diamonds. I pity them all in more ways than one.
ReplyDeleteEscaping to America hasn't helped either. The royals are an institution and as such have to keep up standards. I actually believe they are good for us but would rather not have their dirty linen washed in public...Especially as American therapy is not really part of British culture. When I read the news each morning I nearly always pull out things I find as funny by the way.
DeleteIt's amazing how easily I too can listen to Radio 3 in this little world of ours..I found a bird song guide there. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteHi Yael, I listen to BBC world news at night when I am awake, but do love Sunday morning, when Radio 3 has quiet music and birds. The problems you have at the moment which keep you awake at night are far greater than mine of course but write it out of your system, we are all there for you.
DeleteThat was so soothing Thelma - thank you. I watched the programme on Charles/Harry last night - I found it rather sad. I felt sorry for Charles as I really think he did his very best for those two boys when they were growing up. I agree totally with Bike Shed above.
ReplyDeleteCharles writes well, he has written for Resurgence, and his heart is in the right place. He is of course the product of parents who were part of the old fashioned era of the early 20th century. The modern cult of blame is foolish.
DeleteThose green, rolling landscapes evoked by Butterworth, Vaugh Williams, Elgar etc. have all been scenes of war and bloody battles in their time. This music is for the periods of tranquility in between. The birds kept singing on WW1 battlefields though. They adapt. They just have to sing louder.
ReplyDeleteYes war after war, there was a terrible book written by the surgeon on the Battle of the Lansdown between Royalists and Cromwell troops. But the pastoral music was perhaps written to counter the horrors of war.
DeleteThe brook down in Swainswick was said to have run red on the days of the battle of Lansdown. I suppose they needed running water for the wounded. 'Sheep May Safely Graze' was one bit of pastoral music which was all to do with peace and prosperity. The wool trade and the Lamb of God.
DeleteThinking of battlefields, all along the ridge facing Bristol they also practiced for warfare in the first World War, and then the second World War, had airfields on Charmy Down and the racecourse.
DeleteYou know, I don't understand it. As I understand it, they agreed to stop using the HRH titles. They have not. I am also a little bit appalled that every time they have an interaction with 'the family', there is a press release. I would see them as unsafe to share any intimate moments with, or any confidences with, lest they be newspaper headlines the next day. Harry has had a long standing grudge against the paparazzi but he has married a woman who seeks them out. They have made their choice, and I think that they have every right to do that. But he should have realized from the beginning that you cannot straddle both worlds, which is what they seem to be trying to do...and leaking every bit of it to an eager press.
ReplyDeleteYes they are feeding the media Debby, but at the expense of the royal family. I am not even a royalist but his pathetic whining gets on everyone's nerves. He must really be dominated by Meghan, not a good place to be;) but families stick together, especially at the time of funerals.
DeleteA familiar piece of music - thank you for providing me with the title and composer.
ReplyDeleteI am thoroughly annoyed with Harry - that "poor me" attitude, being milked for every penny it's worth because he was born who he was and is now married to a woman who is a devout sensationalist - at the right price. I don't doubt that his shrink told him he had to get it all off his chest, and now he needs some dosh to pay the exhorbitant fees the shrink has charged him. At the end of the day, these are his family, whether they be Royal or not, and anyone with an ounce of integrity wouldn't take money to run them down in public. He needs a good slapping.
Ah Jennie, you going to give it? he is like a child bouncing around in his own misery and all those journalists are having a ball. Is this what society has become I wonder?
DeleteI'd raise my hand to give him a good talking to - just as any mother would! His brother is worth ten of him.
DeletePrince Harry was once loved from afar by the majority of British people but now he just seems like a self-obsessed twerp. This poisonous stuff he comes out with - well, it's like burning your boats - meaning that he can never get back to where he once was. How he must have broken Prince Charles's heart. Calling the boy Archie was itself an insult to royal etiquette. I guess they will call the baby girl Madonna, Oprah or Rainbow. Something like that.
ReplyDeleteYes you are right, he has burnt his boats, acting like a teenager blaming everyone else but himself, What will happen when America gets tired of him I wonder?
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