It's cold outside ...

[wellinghall]

... and adaese was quoting this at me as we walked in this morning.

"A Song of the Weather", by Flanders and Swann

January brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.

February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes tight off your feet.

Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind!

April brings the sweet spring showers,
On and on for hours and hours.

Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day.

June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops.

In July the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it's not.

August, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.

Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.

Then October adds a gale,
Wind and slush and rain and hail.

Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.

Freezing wet December, then
Bloody January again!


Miller's Dale for Tideswell ...
Kirby Muxloe ...
Mow Cop and Scholar Green ...

No more will I go to Blandford Forum and Mortehoe
On the slow train from Midsomer Norton and Mumby Road.
No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or Chester-le-Street.
We won't be meeting again
On the Slow Train.

I'll travel no more from Littleton Badsey to Openshaw.
At Long Stanton I'll stand well clear of the doors no more.
No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to Dunstable Town.
I won't be going again
On the Slow Train.

On the Main Line and the Goods Siding
The grass grows high
At Dog Dyke, Tumby Woodside
And Trouble House Halt.

The Sleepers sleep at Audlem and Ambergate.
No passenger waits on Chittening platform or Cheslyn Hay.
No one departs, no one arrives
From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives.
They've all passed out of our lives
On the Slow Train, on the Slow Train.

Cockermouth for Buttermere ... on the Slow Train,
Armley Moor Arram ...
Pye Hill and Somercotes ... on the Slow Train,
Windmill End.

Factual details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Train

Comments

[sally_maria]

:-)

I'm so glad they didn't get rid of the St Erth to St Ives line, is truly gorgeous - right around the bay stopping at all the beaches.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I thought you would appreciate the posting :-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I don't think I blogged that the other day out walking I found a place where they are rebuilding (part of ) a Beeching-chopped railway line - for steam trains!

It's here - http://www.plymrail.co.uk/

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice.

How are you feeling now, BTW?

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

*loves Flanders and Swann*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I thought you would like it, too :-)

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Love the weather song. It's so true!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that's a good one :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is - this year, at any rate!