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Sunday, August 23, 2009

BBC Shipping Forecast





When I was a kid I would sit in my Grandad's garden shed (home to all that is manly in Northern England), drink sugary tea and watch him smoke JPS's. We would listen to the BBC's shipping forecast in silence giving into the hypnotic quality of the names: Faeroes, Fair Isle, Viking, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight, Humber, and Thames to name but a few.

Years later in Alabama I would sit and listen on a small Grundig short wave. The familiar names from the North Sea filling the humidity of a Tuscaloosa row house both comforting and making me long for a place I had left years before.

Summer is now dwindling and the kids are restless. I find a BBC stream and the names come again. This time working their magic on my 6 & 8 year old. Faeroes, Fair Isle, Viking, Dogger... the names as meaningless, exotic, and comforting as they where to me in my Grandad's garden. They drift off and things just seem to be in the right place- at least for a while.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/shipping/

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