Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon

[poliphilo]

I didn't watch the England-Germany match. It was a sunny day, so I sat in the yard and read about the execution of Louis XVI. Louis was a lousy politician but a man of personal courage and dignity. He made a good show on the scaffold- just like Charles I. After a while I heard whistles and cheering and assumed England had scored- and so they had- only Germany had already scored twice- with two more to come. Frankly, I'm not surprised. Later I watched Ray Davies (on the BBC) singing his biggest hits at Glastonbury- on the pyramidal stage, with the Tor on the skyline. We may be useless at football, but we're really good at pop music.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

You're good at Tors, too. Or you used to be.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We are, we are.....:)

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

My 60th birthday present to myself is going to be a trip to Scotland. Partly because of another LJ friend who is a really good photographer. I've never been an Anglophile, but your photos of the places you've been have certainly tempted me to become one. Maybe for my 65th...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That'd be really cool. If you come, you must drop by and see us.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Absolutely--but this is years away, and I have to be steadily employed the whole time for this to work. That's a real trick these days.:(