Marc’s Almanac

30th April, 2020 – The Promised Garden


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Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Theo Dorgan, The Promised Garden.

"There is a garden where our hearts converse,

At ease beside clear water, dreaming..."

From the show:

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe – also a wonderful film

John Wilkes and Liberty

Jerry Lordan, who wrote Wonderful Land for The Shadows, was born today in 1934

Celebrate Walpurgisnight with Cunning Folk

Music to wake up to – Summer Is Icumen In sung by the Oxford Girls' Choir

(Listen to the full playlist on YouTube)

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Have a lovely day.

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