Margaret loved music and poetry.

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The Learig
Karine Polwart

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things —
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

Gerard Manley Hopkins 

November 24 - November 30th

Here are some songs we’ve been playing for mum.

Blow the Wind Southerly
Kathleen Ferrier
The Keel Row
Kathleen Ferrier

They’re lullabies, because they’re peaceful, and they’re also songs she sang to us.

Skye Boat Song
The King's Singers & Manuel Barrueco
O Can Ye Sew Cushions?
Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Petit garçon
Nana Mouskouri
Le parapluie
Georges Brassens

This next, because I loved to hear mum practice as I was going to sleep.

Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"
Alfred Brendel
Keyboard Sonatina in D major, Op. 36, No. 6: I. Allegro con spirito
Chun-Young June

These are a few. I’ll add more later. If you are remembering songs mum loved, I will collect them.

Water Music Suite No. 1 in F, HWV 348: 5. Air
The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock

And then, I kept playing mum’s lullabyes to us, for myself. These were for St. Andrew’s Day, November 30th.

I Like to Take My Time
Mister Rogers
The Learig
Karine Polwart