“Those eyes of old look at me and, through the haze of your futures, I look back at you…”
On this freezing December night, snuggle closer to the stove as I reflect on the strangeness of coming across an old photograph of me as a small child as well as the adventures of the Archdeacon on ice.
Journal entry:
9th December, Friday
“The scent of wood smoke and cold air.
The warm, dry sound of someone splitting firewood.
Each teasel head is framed in a perfect halo of sunlight.
Today, at least, their sainthood is revealed.”
Episode Information:
In this episode I read an extract from the Anglo-Saxon poem Andreas and I refer to Eleanor Parker’s book Winters in the Word: A journey through the Anglo-Saxon year published in 2022 by Reaktion Books.
You can see and buy a copy of Dru Marland’s wonderful ‘Canal Ice Scale’ from her Etsy site: Dru Marland ‘Canal Ice Scale’ (postcard).
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General Details
In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.
Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.
Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.
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You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.