My photo from this morning’s walk gave me the old Beatles classic for today’s title! It is of a Chiffchaff -I went to take the picture while it was on the branch -and then captured it moving! We had a delightful walk in the morning sunshine seeing the following migrants Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat also heard a Cuckoo (at last for me) and Reed Warblers . Also saw a striking Linnet at the top of a tree.
Yesterday’s answers to the Quiz no new questions today (have a rest on a Sunday!)
a) Flowers in the Rain by the Move was the first song played on Radio 1 (often a quiz question) b) Rolling Stones singing I Wanna be your Man was the first song played on Top of the Pops c) First song ever recorded was a French lady singing “Claire de la Lune” in 1860 (before Eddison’s 1877 recording!) d) First Beatles Number 1 was “Please Please Me” e) Biggest selling album in UK (not a Greatest Hits) is the Beatles again with Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
St Helena a different perspective
Some pictures showing the rugged coastline of St. Helena and also the burial spot for Napoleon (his remains are now in Paris). I have added my poem that I wrote at the time trying to express some slightly muddled thoughts about the island at that moment in time.
Exile
Dawn mists envelop Seaview
Perceptions temporarily clouded
Mynah birds chatter incessantly
Words incomprehensible as those from afar
Morning horns blare their warnings
Unlike those Sirens that mislead
The sea melts into the distant horizon
Like a tattered dream on the breeze
Rugged rocks dominate, weathered and worn
A harsh reality that halts our moves
Flax swarms down the hillside
The infestation once imported, now a choking obsolescence
Irrational notion of a deep malaise
Roads winding precariously from hillsides
Twisting and writhing like a knotted serpent
Going back over well worn tracks
Napoleon incarcerated, despairing
Trapped aspirations quashed
An island discarded, patronised from afar
Left to find new threads from neglect
Yet optimism abounds from the multitude of smiles
For future hope……………………