Hi, ladies!
It has been raining almost all day today.
Plum, thank you for letting us know the beautiful song English country garden. The pictures of those beautiful gardens really delighted my eyes, and any types of songs were very charming. I like the one by Nana Mouskouri. By just singing the song, children in Australia can easily keep in mind the names of flowers, insects and birds, can’t they? By the way, she looks like Japanese singer Angela Aki…
The article quiz Plum put on the Blog is always informative for me. Just relax and go…Oh, I got 9 marks on the former, but only 5 on the latter. Maybe I misunderstood the situation.
So, see you next. Have a good weekend!
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Hi, ladies!!!
Thank you, Cherry, for listening to the different versions of the song English Country Garden I listed yesterdsay.
Thank you also, Cherry, for telling me that you like Nana's version
Let me tell you something about another song: Lavenders Blue.
According to the Wikipedia, "Lavender Blue", also called "Lavender's Blue", is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the seventeenth century, which has been recorded in various forms since the twentieth century.
The Wikipedia also mentions that the earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1685, under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green,
When I am king, dilly, dilly, you shall be queen.
Who told you so, dilly, dilly, who told you so?
'Twas my own heart, dilly, dilly, that told me so.
Call up your men, dilly, dilly, set them to work
Some with a rake, dilly, dilly, some with a fork.
Some to make hay, dilly, dilly, some to thresh corn.
While you and I, dilly, dilly, keep ourselves warm.
Lavender's green, dilly, dilly, Lavender's blue,
If you love me, dilly, dilly, I will love you.
Let the birds sing, dilly, dilly, And the lambs play;
We shall be safe, dilly, dilly, out of harm's way.
I love to dance, dilly, dilly, I love to sing;
When I am queen, dilly, dilly, You'll be my king.
Who told me so, dilly, dilly, Who told me so?
I told myself, dilly, dilly, I told me so.
This is a beautiful song and you will love it.
I will list three versions of the song, the first two of which are sung by the Wiggles and the last one is sung by some children, not the Wiggles.
The Wiggles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKWVzal16Lg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3__t_lp_Ck&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQJjgcXbqxQ
Enjoy the song, my precious friends. Bye for now…
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends,
Thank you, Plum, for introducing the wonderful children’s song to us. What a lovely song it is! I, too, love the song “In an English Country Garden” sung by Nana very much. As Plum and Cherry said, her voice is so beautiful, fascinating and charming. I listened to her song several times last night before I went to bed. Since then, the melody of the first parts of this song kept coming back to my mind comfortably. I wish I could sing a whole song with beautiful correct English pronunciation. Oh, I can’t pronounce some parts with many names of flowers, insects and birds.
About the lyric, I think a word “and” comes after each line of “I’ll tell you now of some I know”
By the way, today we are lucky to see the beautiful full moon in the clear sky. I enjoyed “Tsukimi” with silver grass or susuki and hagi. I hope you are enjoying the moon viewing (with sake and dango?) in the nice autumn evening.
Good night, my precious friends.
Hi, ladies!!!
We had a fantastic and delightful time in tutorial, discussing a variety of topics about women and philanthropy in 19th century England, didn’t we?
In the afternoon session, we watched Absolutely Fabulous, a UK TV sitcom series, which is absolutely ridiculous and nonsensical, though we could learn some British contemporary culture familiar to women, especially middle aged ones, and linguistic expressions intertwined with such culture.
Next time, if we have time for DVDs, I would like to show you another type of TV program. By the way, the next tutorial is the last one in Victorian Studies. Time flies…
Hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial. Bye for now. Night, night, my precious friends.
Sorry to disturb you.
Just one correction.
The novel’s title should have been Jude the Obscure.
Silly of me.
Good night..., my lovely friends.
Hi, ladies!!!
Thank you, Rose, for telling me that you like Nana’s version of English Country Garden. She has such a beautiful voice and I admire her for that. The melody is easy to remember, and once you learn how to put the words to the melody, it is not so difficult to sing this song with Nana, Rose.
Cosmos is going to write a Japanese essay about Louisa Twining, so I went through some web articles on her. This is one of them. Would you like to know something about Louisa Twining? I hope so. (She enjoyed a long life, didn’t she?)
Cosmos, it seems that her book Recollections of Life and Work (1893) would be very useful to you, doesn’t it?
I just wonder whether Nagoya University Libraries hold a copy of this book.
"LOUISA TWINING (1820-1912), English philanthropic worker, was born in London Nov. 16 1820. In early life she was an artist, and published Symbols and Emblems of Mediaeval Christian Art (1852) and Types and Figures of the Bible (1854). In 1853, however, she became interested in movements for social reform, and began the work in connexion with the Poor Law to which she devoted the rest of her life. In March 1861 she helped to establish a home for workhouse girls sent out to service, and in 1864 a Workhouse Visiting Society. In 1867 an act was passed separating infirmaries from workhouses, and after 12 more years of work Miss Twining in 1879 established the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association. She was a Poor Law guardian for Kensington during 1884-90, and for Tonbridge Union during 1893-6. She promoted the opening of Lincoln's Inn Fields to the public, helped to start the Metropolitan and National Association for nursing the poor in their homes, did much to secure the appointment of police matrons, and was president of the Women's Local Government Society. She published Recollections of Life and Work (1893), Workhouse and Pauperism (1898), and many papers on Poor Law subjects. She died in London Sept. 25 1912.
Hi, ladies,
So many days have passed since I last read this blog. I was so comfused with my DH's illness. He has a pancreas cancer. I feel very sad about this fact. He had a anti-cancer treatment two times till now. At the first treatment, I was so unsettled. "What is going on about him." Instead of me who had a job, my sister went with him. He insisted on going by himself, though. After the job, I went to the hospital to find DH and my sister were talking smiling and waving to me. That treatment takes just one hour. He told me that it was not as hard as we expected. But the next day, he felt dull and his appetite had gone. The third and fourth, he became better. That is the routine. On the second treatment, the same thing happened to him. He takes that treatment every three Fridays. It is Monday, three days after the treatment today, so he seems to be feeling better.
These days I manage to collect myself. Ithink it is important for me to write something in Englsish because I believe writing gives me a chance to see things in different way.
My friends, please excuse me for my abruption. I'm OK. I can find every happiness in my life.
Good night, my friends
Hello, Cherry and my precious friends,
It began to rain in the late evening and was still raining until midnight.
It was so lucky for me to see the beautiful and holy full moon yesterday night.
Alice, thank you for introduce me Gmail, so that I'll be able to enter this blog.
In the tutorial class on Sunday, we had a fabulous time with Plum, who told us about various interesting topics, including the Wiggles, the most prominent and popular singer group among children. I could hear Plum singing English country garden in her beautiful voice.
I also went to the site to English Garden sung by Nana.
What an amazing screen! Flowers and birds on the screen were so colorful and stunning to see, not to mention her voice.
Thank you for listing the words. I feel sorry I know few names of those flowers and birds.
I'd like to sing this pretty and legant song.
Have a good night sleep, my friends.
Hello Ladies,
Thank you, Plum, for writing about Louisa Twining and beautiful English songs. I went to Nagoya University and read two of the writings by L. Twining. To my relief, her English is not so difficult to read, which I wrote details on my email to you. I also borrowed a book written by Elizabeth Blackwell.
Lavender Blue is my favorite song. I love its melody, too. From what I remember, the song is included among the songs of Mother Goose. John Dowland (1563-1626) is also my favorite English composer. I also love an English folk song. There is a legend that Greensleeves was composed by Henry Ⅷ for his lover.
Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved you for so long,
Delighting in your company.
Chorus:
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves.
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