Over on GC and Sue W’s Weekly Prompts site, the Wednesday Challenge is the word Roads.
GC chose to include the very apt Beatles song “The Long And Winding Road” which, incidentally, has a faint ghostly voice (Paul’s I think) saying “Keep me waiting” at the 3.15 point. Seems odd, especially on a remastered version.
Anyway, after that pause to ponder, I remembered this song “Any Road”, by George Harrison. It is the opening track to his posthumous album Brainwashed and was written in 1988.
John had to travel to London by train. Read his very funny/Not funny at all account of his journey here!
A horrendously overcrowded jam-packed standing-room-only journey by train from Nottingham to London. Somewhat surprised to get an email from East Midlands Railways enquiring if I enjoyed the trip. My reply is below: “What a splendid journey. We found ourselves lodged in the connecting corridor of two carriages, along with many other of your passengers, far…
I happened across this, saw that it was read by only a couple of people, and thought it deserved a second try, along with a couple of spoken word files, albeit in a rather croaky voice. I hope you like it!
I’ve always enjoyed “Night Mail” by W. H. Auden and sometimes write in the same rhythm, it begs to be read out loud.
This journey is on a local train so the speed is never very fast and, from start to stop, only takes one minute.
But who is driving the train, and where are the passengers?
Look around the carriages. Who’s there?
NOBODY
Nobody left in Paddington Green
nobody heard and nobody seen
nobody heard ’cause nobody spoke
nobody left in Hanley or Stoke
nobody angry, nobody sad
nobody saintly, nobody bad
nobody left to tell us the tale
nobody knows what caused it to fail
nobody young and nobody old
nobody hot and nobody cold
nobody live and nobody dead
nobody left to take to your bed
nobody here to argue or share
nobody even to stand and stare nobody left…
Peter's pondering 
