Eating a banana on the Aran Islands
We’ve been having some strange weather here in Ireland this past week. A country that is more used to grey skies and lots of rain has been experiencing bright blue skies, sunshine and warm weather for the past nine days. The beaches have been filled with eager sunbathers and many people are taking early holidays. Sales of cider, ice cream and sun tan lotion have gone through the roof and everyone is happy. Well, everyone except secondary school students who’ve just started their exams. And even they were given a day off today as someone gave out the wrong paper yesterday. This week of glorious weather was preceded by a wonderful trip by me to Germany and since I’ve returned I’ve been quite busy. I’ll try to post about what’s been going on soon, but first here’s some summer songs for you to take the weather with you. It looks like a change is going to come
01 In The Hot Hot Rays – Fleet Foxes
03 Kokomo (Beach Boys cover) – Adam Green (w Ben Kweller)
04 Here Comes the Sun (Beatles cover) – Richie Havens
05 Higher Than the Sun (Primal Scream)- Bat for Lashes
06 Don’t Look Back Into The Sun (Libertines cover) – The View
07 Don’t Dream it’s Over (Crowded House cover) – Sunshiners
08 Weather With You (Crowded House cover) – Aswad
09 Seasons In The Sun – Terry Jacks
10 Sunshine Superman – Donovan
11 Sunny Girlfriend – The Monkees
12 That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman
13 Sitting In The Midday Sun – Ana Egge
14 Sunshine on Leith – The Proclaimers
15 The Lazy Sunbathers – Morrissey
16 A Little Sweet Sunshine – Bert Jansch
18 Bless the Weather – John Martyn
Oh, I would love to visit the Aran Islands. Meanwhile, thanks for the summery tunes.
I remember reading J.M. Synge’s book on the Aran islands years ago and him writing how they didn’t bother to teach the men to swim as it would only make the drowning more miserable when their fishing boats capsized! W.