Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Edward Thomas, How At Once.
"How at once should I know,
When stretched in the harvest blue..."
From the show:
1 John 2:17
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
On this day: 3rd August, 1914, Edward Grey says "the lamps are going out all over Europe"
On this day: 3rd August, 1803, Joseph Paxton, designer of the Crystal Palace is born in Bedfordshire
Music to wake you up – Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
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