Have you ever sizzled sausages over a fire on a beach - salt air, coming into dusk, put a jumper on, but summer's not quite gone?
I have, but not for years - decades! - and it must be the season, something in the breeze, because suddenly I want to do it now, badly.
I associate it with the turning year...things ending, other things about to start....someone's brought some rough old scrumpy and I'll sip some because the smoke from the fire and that salt air's making me thirsty, and oh yes I'll be sorry tomorrow. But now - the stars.
Anyway - campfire music...
Michelle Shocked - '5am In Amsterdam' (1986)
Davy Graham - 'Anji' (1964)
cor but that sounds fine. apart from the sausages and the scrumpy obviously. but can we pretend that it might not be autumn just yet a little while longer. i'm not ready. it's just another rubbish summer day. it'll be lovely tomorrow really it will.
ReplyDeletebugger.
Did the same sort of thing up the west coast of Scotland when I were a lad, just substitute the scrumpy for Buckfast. Never found out if it was the undercooked sausages or the tonic wine that made us feel rotten the next day.
ReplyDeleteThere is probably some health and safety directive preventing this sort of thing these days.
Nice tunes btw.
Drew
Almost certainly - sharpened inflammable sticks too? Bound to be illegal.
ReplyDeleteAh, but Ally it's OK you see - because this was always a late summer not quite autumn thing. And no, I haven't been able to touch cider since and my sausages are veggie these days but, you know...x
'my sausages are veggie these days' I'm sure Talbot Rothwell could get pages out of line like that.
ReplyDeleteHave you read Will Hodgkinson - Guitar Man - about his mission to go from total non guitar player to performing - 'Anji' live in in six months - new or used for less than a penny on Amazon.
There's a pub near me that sells from Scrumpy from a shed in the beer garden that's cloudy and smells of eggs (the scrumpy, not the shed)
Your comment is informative PM but please DO NOT TOUCH THIS SCRUMPY.
ReplyDeleteI know this shouldn't exactly be news, rather just what is expected, but you're reading some corking books at the moment. I thought 'Moondust' was absolutely wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've had a scrumpy night since I first got off with my first ever girlfriend. That sentence could do with a rewrite, I know, but...
...I assume the scrumpy preceded the getting off? THE DANGERS OF SCRUMPY ARE MANY! KIDS, JUST SAY NO.
ReplyDeletePS: Yes, Moondust is cracking.
ok ok, wth is scrumpy?
ReplyDeleteScrumpy is a "lightly" alcoholic brew made from fermented apples and what ever else is lying about at the time, sold to gullible tourists visitng the West Country, who then lose control of their minds and bodily functions much to the amusement of afore mentioned locals.
ReplyDeleteHazy memories of holdays long gone by in Polperro.
Absolutely brilliant stuff
Drew
thanks for the Davy Graham. The first time I heard him was when a mate of mine bought a cheap cd on a punt. The couldn't believe what we were hearing. He is a true genius and the fact that he isn't well known and an absolute superstar is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
Ah, you speak the truth MB, cheers yourself.
ReplyDeleteBUT DO NOT DRINK THE SCRUMPY.
ps
ReplyDeleteain't moondust just a treat
x
Oh yes.
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