FOUND IT!
What was it Archimedes
said in the bath? If I could remember
that’s what I would say now because I’ve just identified a maddeningly elusive piece
of music. That lush thing they play on
the tv Darts trailers is the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. Massenet not Verdi. Of course it is. You could have told me. Anyway I’m savouring and sharing the happy moment
with you. It always brought tears to my
mum’s eyes when it was on the wireless. These You Have Loved – Doris Arnold’s
favourite tear-jerking pieces of music on the Home Service in the 1940s/50s. And now it’s doing the same for me. Never fails.
Gorgeous feeling of transporting overwhelmedness.
And I’m nostalgically
touched by the darts association. Some
of you might know that in our fondest years Edgar and I played a lot of memorable
darts in a lot of pubs from Land’s End to Kirk Yetholm, especially somewhere in
Grimsby with Derek, and at the Minerva in Hull and the Oddfellows in Pocklington.
Now I’ve
remembered. Archimedes said ‘Eureka’ in
the bath.
Maybe this is
what I’ll do: blog all my teary sobby moments.
