Singing along
Much to the amusement of Maggie, my partner, instead of resolving to go to the gym or to stop drinking alcohol in the New Year my resolution was to learn the words to Un beso y una flor. It's a song popularised in Spain by the singer Nino Bravo in 1972. I don't know about you but I was forced to learn things by rote in Secondary school on pain of serious bodily harm. Latin master to an 11 year old me. "Alright Thompson; present tense of to love in Latin" I try. "Wrong, lift one leg, stand on just one. Try again. Same verb, same tense." I try again. "Wrong, lift the other leg too!" Should you be concerned I can still trot out amō, amās, amat, amāmus, amātis, amant even when I'm dead drunk. I can also do "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high etc.," and "So shaken as we are, so wan with care, find we a time for frighted peace to pant, etc. That seems to be it though. There must have been more but they've go...