Because Captain Riou is awesome…
In typical Sherlock style, Captain Riou is thought dead on the sinking ship of HMS Guardian only to return from the grave! Not before he gets some cool elegic poetry though.
I’m not sure whether it is more awesome because it actually happened or not.
Brave hearts! to Britain’s pride
Once so faithful and so true,
On the deck of fame that died; —
With the gallant, good Riou:
Soft sigh the winds of heaven o’er their grave!
While the billow mournful rolls
And the mermaid’s song condoles,
Singing glory to the souls
Of the brave! —
from The poetical works of Thomas Campbell, London : Edward Moxon, 1837
Printed volume RB/45
(totally nabbed from the NSW State library pages on the HMS Guardian)
Milk Transport Vehicle. Serious stuff. More important and relevant than ASIO’s domestric efforts in total. Or so I’m told.
Amazing podcasts from BBC Radio Ulster - “Everyday Ethics”. Very accurately described on the website as “Provocative weekly debate with William Crawley on moral, religious and ethical issues.”
Christian centric, of course, focusing on social and cultural interplays in Britain, and in this podcast, Northern Ireland. This podcast in particular deals with the latest chapter of the Murphy report, the pope’s comments on the ‘war on Christmas’, abortion laws in Ireland, institutional abuse and the new inquiry in Norther Ireland, and more. A great array of speakers with a number of viewpoints, and William Crawley is by far the best mediator I’ve ever come accross. Most of all, I appreciate how he asks for concrete examples from speakers, and prods them to fully explaining their ideals. Couldn’t ask for more- I’ll definitely be tuning in for next week.
A hot NYE, Hyde Park 2010.
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