Autumn Draws In
After the coolest and driest summer for years we are embarking on autumn! It certainly looks like it as I travel the local roads. The leaves on the hawthorn have started to change from their summer green to a dull yellow. The nights are drawing in apace, on a few evenings this past week it was dark by 8.30! And a sure sign that summer has passed, the local children ‘go back’ to school next week after their six weeks holiday.
‘Sunday Evening, Monday Morning’ Syndrome
There will be lots of ‘Sunday evening, Monday morning’ syndrome. I remember it well! Not only from when I was a child, and when my own children were off back to school after even a weekend, but also when I did my stint as a teaching assistant for ten years! My kids got their own back on me by saying on Sunday evening or after a holiday, ‘Don’t start getting grumpy mum just because you’ve got to go back to school’!! They say what goes around comes around!! (Whoever ‘they’ might be!!)
Darkside, of the Moon!
Friday evening was ‘rocking’! A trip to the Theatre Severn was just what was needed to lift the spirits! Darkside (Pink Floyd tribute band) were amazing! Having never actually seen the original Pink Floyd, I’m sure these guys were an excellent indication of what the ‘real’ band sound like live! The rafters of the Walker Theatre (the smaller and more intimate of the two performing areas) were raised high above Shrewsbury as Pink Floyd ‘hits’ were belted out, culminating after two and a half hours of sheer heaven, with Comfortably Numb! My favourite and a track I want played at my funeral!! When I hope to be just that, comfortably numb!! Musicians, pure and simple, although there is nothing simple about the music of Pink Floyd! Well done guys, I was so engrossed I didn’t even find time to eat my jelly babies! A good indicator that the entertainment was ace!! Well worth the ticket money!!
Nuthatch, Hide That Seed!
The birds are streaming in to the bird platform! A pair of nuthatches have been visiting regularly, taking the sunflower seeds and hiding them in nooks and crannies, including amongst the tufts of moss on the roof! Are we going to see sunflowers growing on the rooftop next year? Watch this space as they say! (That mysterious ‘they’ pops up everywhere!!) The nuthatch is an amazing little bird; he appears to do everything upside down, scuttling head first down posts and feeders.
Jethro Tull at The Theatre Severn
Wow! I didn’t think that Friday evening’s trip to the Theatre Severn could be topped, but I was very wrong! My LTA (long term attachment) has always been a fan of Jethro Tull (that’s the band not the man who invented the seed drill or some such!), and so, when I saw that Ian Anderson was coming to Shrewsbury I thought tickets were a must! (I don’t normally ‘go out’ two nights together, but this opportunity couldn’t be missed!)The only thing I could remember about Jethro Tull was a song called Minstrel in the Gallery and Ian Anderson standing on one leg whilst playing the flute!
What an amazing show! The amount of musical talent emanating from the three guys on the stage was unbelievable! How come some people have so much talent while I struggled to play the recorder to accompany the Christmas carols in my few years at ‘big school’? Life is so unfair! John hurried his way through changes from accordion to keyboard to percussion, while the blond haired god of rock, Florian’s performance on an array of guitars was mind-blowing! (Oh to be forty years younger!!) And of course there was Ian himself! His unique voice, his incredible affinity with his flute and that cheeky little thing he does with his leg all contributed to a magical evening!! And he’s a cat lover! My conversion is complete!!
Thanks for your time!
The Bumpkin Rambler xx
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