Song of the Day - 14th October
We are well into October and autumn has definitely settled in. The leaves are dropping, the cold winds are blowing, but today here in the North West I can see Mediterranean-blue skies outside my window with white fluffs of cloud sailing high above. Sadly, I don't have the accompanying Mediterranean temperatures; it is definitely heating-on time! I am sure a lot of us (at least those of us in the UK) remember that Primary School Assembly banger, Autumn Days. Although personally I don't think I have ever seen "jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled" - I think that line might have been a touch of bunkum! So, to celebrate autumn, today's Song of the Day is a setting of a poem also entitled "Autumn Days" by American poet Will Carleton. This poem beautifully illustrates the changeable nature of Autumn. Will Carleton died in 1912 but his influence on American literature was such that in 1919, the Michigan legislature required teachers to teach at least o...