tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6899327782569443389..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: shipping forecast, conkers, laceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-89109994905989303682007-09-09T20:56:00.000+01:002007-09-09T20:56:00.000+01:00In fact we receive both BBC FM radio and televisio...In fact we receive both BBC FM radio and television through ordinary terrestrial means directly from Jersey; there is no ground higher than where we are in between us and the Anglo- Norman Isles, and the reception, save in periods of exceptional high pressure or other clmatic conditions, is better than when we lived in a narrow valley in Dorset! However, I haven't listened to PM for a bit, so i didn't know about that.<BR/>(I'm not supposed to be reading any blogs this week, but I can't forego yours!)Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-2163399367890613782007-09-04T10:12:00.000+01:002007-09-04T10:12:00.000+01:00Yes, indeed. Lots of people lament the disappearan...Yes, indeed. Lots of people lament the disappearance of "Sailing by". Is it sentimental to regret the passing of such insistutions? Nostalgia isnt't what it used to be.Eh? For the time being we should be grateful for the chimes of Big Ben, which I can recall from my childhood, during World War 2. In Mrs Dalloway, whose eponymous heroine lived within earshot of them, Virginia Woolf refers to them as "leaden circles disolving in the air". The chimes have been temporarily withdrawn from the Six O'clock News because of repairs to the clock, and have been replaced for a month or so by recordings made by listeners of the sounds of summer. Perhaps, you listen to the PM programme. I forget sometimes, in the modern world, that it must be accessible to you. Silly me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-91529486798036864882007-09-03T17:59:00.000+01:002007-09-03T17:59:00.000+01:00Ah, but the lilting melody of 'Sailing By' for the...Ah, but the lilting melody of 'Sailing By' for the last one of the day has, I hear, gone west!<BR/>(I was rarely up late enough to hear it, but I loved it when I did.)Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com