Forever Autumn

Headed to Birmingham to see Stucks and had a lovely evening putting the world to rights with her and Jo.

Girls are back at school so it means that summer is over - I treated myself to a leafy top that shouts autumn.

Being children of the 70's me and Stucks have a shared love of War of the Worlds and we made mention of it tonight...and it's been playing round my head ever since.

"Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away

A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes

As if to hide a lonely tear
My life will be Forever Autumn
'cause you're not here
'cause you're not here
'cause you're not here"

JOURNALIST: As I hastened through Covent Garden, Blackfriars and Billingsgate, more and more people joined the painful exodus. Sad, weary women, their children stumbling and streaked with tears, their men bitter and angry, the rich rubbing shoulders with beggars and outcasts. Dogs snarled and whined, the horses' bits were covered with foam... and here and there were wounded soldiers, as helpless as the rest.

We saw tripods wading up the Thames, cutting through bridges as though
they were paper - Waterloo Bridge, Westminster Bridge... One appeared above Big Ben.

MARTIANS: Ulla!

Jeff Wayne - The War of The Worlds

*that* used to frighten the life out of me when I was a kid!