I like Rupert Bear. I’ve explained my fascination on a no longer updated website. My little McDonald’s Rupert goes everywhere with me these days.
Paul McCartney is also a Rupert Bear fan and he wrote and recorded We All Stand Together in Rupert’s honor. I own the DVD and two singles of this song.
Watch it on YouTube (hurry – it’s bound to be removed at some point)
The weather is finally warm enough to keep the windows open at night. My favorite part of open windows is being awakened to birdsong in the mornings.
I always think of the first track on side two of Kate Bush’s Aerial when I hear the birds singing in the morning and say, to myself — or out loud is someone is in the room, “The day is full of birds”.
Mummy…
Daddy…
The day is full of birds
Sounds like they’re saying words.
If you’ve not checked out Kate’s website, do so now. Especially if you like birds.
I remember the first Earth Day. I don’t remember what we did, but I remember thinking it was a new beginning – a way to save the Earth.
In 1986 or thereabouts my husband and I walked from our house in Alexandria to an Earth Day rally in Washington DC. Tom Cruise was there. We walked home too. We got sunburned and blistered feet.
We didn’t do anything this year for Earth Day. You’d think we’d care more now that we have kids and global warming is a reality instead of a theory.
Here’s a song for Earth Day that I found on an IM contact’s weblog:
Clutch Cargo Lips 