Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, Dane-geld.
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away..."
From the show:
Matthew 24:27
The Gardener's Year, Karel Capek
On this day: 10th August, 991 AD, the Anglo-Saxons failed to turn back a Viking invasion at the Battle of Maldon. The defeat leads King Ethelred to pay the first "Dane-geld" – 3,300kg of silver in this case – in an attempt to buy off the victors
On this day, 10th August, 1856, William Willett was born in Farnham, the builder whose pamphlet proposing Daylight Saving Time would bring the idea to British attention
Music to wake you up – Too Darn Hot, sung by Ella Fitzgerald
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8th April, 2020 – The Tyger
7th April, 2020 – The Lambs of Grasmere
6th April, 2020 – 'Hope' is the thing with feathers
3rd April, 2020 – Home Thoughts, From Abroad
2nd April, 2020 – The Trees
1st April, 2020 – Upon Westminster Bridge
31st March, 2020 – The Sun Rising
30th March, 2020 – Spring
27th March, 2020 – On A Lane In Spring
26th March, 2020 – On His Blindness
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24th March, 2020 – Seaside Golf
23rd March, 2020 – Lockdown
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