Happy News and Lockdown madness 6 June 2020

Once upon a time, someone back in the far distant olden times wrote “If music be the food of love play on”. Wot wos he on about? We is Samson an’ Delilah pups wot live in a little house on the side of a hill, on the luscious green island of Corfu. Lately the mad old lady who we live with called The Missus, who follows us around all day wiv a mop an’ bucket (how do we cure her of this obsession?) has been suffering from Lockdown madness. She found a fing called Yoo Toob wot is on her ‘puter. We fink it’s an excuse for her to stroke that horrible bald mouse an’ ignore us wen we is needing luv too. Enyway she has found this chap called Gert?? Gert is short for Gertrude isn’t it? So how can he be a he? Enyway this guy called Gert van Hoef plays wot is called an organ. We don’t know wot is an Organ. The Missus is getting obsessed wiv’ wotching him on the TV. She is mesmerised by his hands an’ feet wot all play different tunes at the same time. She likes him playing the theme tune from the movie Babe written by a Saint called Saens. https://youtu.be/-qBTDGmfDmA It seems that he wosn’t really a Saint but he was called a Saint an’ wrote this music for an Organ where the sound goes deeper and deeper and lower and lower so that if there were floor boards in this house they would vibrate. Gert also plays a tune called “Jesu bleibet meine freude” Jesu bleibet meine freude. Picture this. A crinkly old lady wiv a mop and bucket wandring round the house singing “Jesu joy of man’s desiring” at the top of her voice. Groannnn! So we don’t fink music is the food of love it’s more the food of loathing. If we were able to get out of this house and get away from her we’d be very happy.

Then wen we’re all enjoying a pleasant nap an’ lost to the world she goes an plays a tune to annoy us called “None shall sleep” Nessun Dorma https://youtu.be/cWc7vYjgnTs . Wot is that about? Jayde Adams on a Megabus to Edinburgh has a lot to answer for. https://soundcloud.com/gemmadavies-1/jayde-adams-sings-opera

But then The Missus plays tunes by Bread. We ask you how does Bread play music? Well it appears Bread also sings! Groannnn! How can bread sing? Picture if you will a slice of floppy white bread wiv two holes for the eyes, and a gash for the mouth and imagine the gash singing. It doesn’t bear thinking about. Well then she plays a song by Bread an’ then we feel guilty for wanting to leave.

You sheltered me from harm Kept me warm, kept me warm You gave my life to me Set me free, set me free The finest munfs I ever knew,

Were all the munfs I had with you.

You taught me how to love What it's of, what it's of You never said too much, But still you showed the way And I knew from watching you Nobody else could ever know, Where that mop and bucket can go.

Is there someone you know, You’re loving them so, But taking them all for granted? You may lose them one day Someone takes them away, And they don't hear the words you long to say

With apologies to David Gates. https://youtu.be/2i43aAn2rq8

The Missus did bopple feed us an’ in the winter kept us warm by the radiator so we could grow. She has loved us always, but she knows we have to go to a new home one day.

On the good news front Delilah has now got a forever home in Britten. The very next day 4 more different people offered her a home. She has been waiting all this time and then 5 people come along at the same time. Just like London buses.

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Oh and Gert van Hoef’s web site is https://www.gertvanhoef.nl/

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Ta-ta fer now.