Kevin Milne: Romance under the supermoon

Lovers often meet under the night sky, stargazing a cliché of the romance genre. But do other celestial bodies carry the same romantic energy?  

Kevin Milne is wondering if blue moons, and blue supermoons in particular, bring romance into people’s lives. He wouldn’t have thought so, but this week’s blue supermoon has stirred some memories and emotions. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
AB Kevin Milne is with us this morning. Ah to
Mardiyar keV Kevin, this week's blue supermoon has brought some
romance into your life.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, did you see the supermoon during the week.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm embarrassed to say I didn't until my steps on
came up to me and said, I know that other
people have bad sleeps on the supermoon, but I slept
so well.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Okay. It was sort of drifted by actually right through
the week. And I was reading yesterday about the link
between blue moons and romance, how blue moons ignite our sentiments.
I don't usually believe that nonsense, but how's this? I
was trying to get to sleep on Monday night. I
had no idea the blue supermoon was on its way

(00:55):
and out of the blue as it were. I had
this startlingly sharp recall of the first time I kissed
my wife, oh, nearly fifty years ago, not just the
detail of events, but the detonation of emotions. Who went
with it? I recalled we were on our first date,

(01:16):
which stated at Julie's wine bar in London's Notting Hill,
where Mark Phillips had just had his stag night prior
to marrying Princess Anne. We went on to London's newly
opened hard Rock Cafe for dinner, then onto the flash
casino I'd wangled my way into, called the Night Spread

(01:37):
Sporting Club. Linda had never been to a casino, so
we spent hours on the roulette table making our fortunes.
We ended up in the French restaurant part of the casino,
snacking late at night on snails, something else I was
gambling on and never having done before. I got Linda
home very late, accompanied to adore. Then that critical unnerving moment,

(02:03):
the kiss. My fear was that as I tilted forward,
she'll tilt back and say, for God's sake, Kevin, we've
been workmates for a year and a half, what the
hell's come over you? But as I leaned forward, so
did she and we kissed, albeit briefly, jack on the lips.

(02:24):
Our relationship had shifted to a whole new level. I
drove home ecstatic, alongside the Thames, past the Houses of Parliament,
and I looked up at Big Ben. It shone like
a supermoon, and it was three point fifteen A m all.
This came back to me on Monday night, and I'm

(02:45):
wondering if I have the Blue Supermoon to.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Thank Yeah, that's a lovely story, Kevin. I'm sure, of
course that you still get the same physiological reaction that
the fireworks going off, the butterflies in your stomach every
time you kiss your better half these days.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, yeah, when our lips mated, is all that still
because it only had happens every few years.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So I mean because when I think of the Blue moone,
I you know, I think of I think of the
Frank Sinatra song, right.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Absolutely, yeah, Well they're a whole lot. There are quite
a lot. I had a look at an anthology.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Are there of Blue Moon related songs? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, that's the one that goes ding ding ding.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah no, I don't know that one. No, okay, no,
I'll have to go and search it out.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah. Yeah, very good.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh well, thank you for sharing that lovely story with us.
That has been test Yeah, just killing things off. We
liked evident jig a little bit of romance on our
Saturday morning, So very much appreciated.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Kevin.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
You take care, We'll catch you sing. Thank Jack that
is Kevin mel

Speaker 1 (03:50):
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