Tonight, as the evenings draw in and autumn takes a firmer hold of towpath and fields, let's gather close beside a woodland campfire for some unabashed romanticism.
For life teaches us two things:
1. Romance does the heart good and brings a smile to the soul - and, on these darker and chillier evenings, who would deny us that?
2. Small boys will always be totally captivated by a wild heart and a gypsy smile ;)
Journal entry:
18th October, Tuesday
“Low cloud, like smoke, sweep down the weeping slopes
Turning fields and woods to smudgy greys.
Scattered below the wordless wood
blurred sheep graze like finger marks in window putty.
Above, cirrus clouds float like flamingo islands in chalk-blue oceans.
Dry leaves rattle.
This morning I walked beneath a cave of stars
And now I see the sun.”
Episode Information:
In this episode I read a couple of short extracts from two poems ‘The Adventures of Tom Bombadil’ and ‘Errantry’ that featured in JRR Tolkien’s (1962) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book published by George Allen and Unwin.
I also briefly refer to John Masefield’s (1903) ‘Cargoes’.
Bonfire recorded by ‘Kyster’ and uploaded to Freesounds on 17th June 2010: https://freesound.org/people/Kyster/sounds/99280
Fox call recorded in Jersey on 14th May 2020 by ‘Ionskwad2020’. https://freesound.org/people/lonskwad2020/sounds/518135/#
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