On Sunday, you will recall, I expressed the hope that Samuel Wesley’s haunting by an apparition of a badger with no head would inspire Bob Drake to craft a song. And lo! it came to pass.
Here is a picture of Bob delicately wrenching a chunk of metal from a cymbal using a pair of bolt cutters, and here is his song.
This is very fine work.
I know someone who witnessed a work colleague being badgered by a badger some years ago outside the Bethlehem mental hospital. A very scary experience for them, but an enduringly hilarious story afterwards. The badger ultimately knocked itself unconscious, charging into the pediment of one of the statues in the grounds.
There’s the TB angle. If you were haunted by its body you wouldn’t be exposed to its saliva.
I KNEW it was an important badger!!!!!
If any of you have downloaded the flac file, please do so again – I just noticed I’d posted a very low-level version there because I’d been listening to my final mix with the volume turned down low and forgot…and saved the flac file that way! It’s fixed now.