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Monday, July 28, 2008

Blair Drummond Safari Park

A visit to Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling in 1972 (it opened in 1970): just a few snaps and my (very cheap) ticket! I'm sure it's changed a lot since those days, both the price and the animals. The website is here.

"MAYMORNING" by RUNRIG

I'm alive again on a Maymorning
Going to wipe the slate clean
Follow my dreams
All the yearning buds are here again
With the the promise of a new life to come
Spring is here again
The sun is melting over the hills
All our roads are waiting
To be revealed
This day in history has brought us to here
Now it's all there for the taking
The day is what you see
The light's returning, the work is in hand
All the cynics have vanished
From where we stand
All the chances wasted are drawing me near
And all around there's new life rising
From the winter fields
I'm alive again
I'm alive again

(I love these words and this song! You can hear some of it sung by Runrig at the bottom of the page)

"BOOK OF GOLDEN STORIES" by RUNRIG

Book of golden stories
Days of open roads
Now the autumn leaves are fallin'
We'll meet on the edges
Memories, no regrets
Now the minstrel boy is callin'

But as long as I can see the morning
In miracles, much more than I can say
It's enough to keep me still believing
In drifting hearts so far away

You took me through the pages
Good happiness is shared
Lost in the web of changes
This could be the last dance
Waltzing in the rain
'Till the Minstrel comes to save us

And, as long as I can see the morning
And blossom comes to bud again in spring
It's enough to keep me still believing
Your memory is everything

Book of golden stories
Book of golden stories...
days of olden notes
Now the autumn leaves are fallin'
Book of golden stories...

(Another one of Runrig's beautiful songs - you can hear it at the bottom of the page!)