It has been an awfully long time since my last post, although this doesn’t mean my life has been entirely uneventful. I’ve done some freelance whisky tasting at a local pub, got a job in a call center and begun an application to return to uni. However the reason I’ve come back online is to post a little morsel I wrote in France, the famous “Tea Party Song”, occasionally referred to irreverently as “Wham Bam Thankyou Pam”. I recorded it today in the wake of Notre Dame’s new bells and have put it online, you can listen to it here:

The Bells of Notre Dame

(There’s a couple of seconds delay at the begining)

And the words are as follows:

Silence isn’t golden

So shout out all your words

‘Cause the tea party is starting up in case you haven’t heard.

The kettle is a-boiling in the window in the sun

And when you read, remember, every word weighs a tonne!

CHORUS:

There’s tea and madeleines, poetry and singing

The bells of Notre Dame are ringing

The bookshop and the bells of Notre Dame

So read us what you’ve written

You needn’t have no fear

Just speak up, never mumble and don’t talk into your beard

But let those rhythms ring out like the bright cathedral bells

You’d better not touch the teapot or Panmellis will give you hell!

CHORUS

BRIDGE:

Well if all the world’s a stage then we might as well be dead

If we leave out hearts all locked up and our poem left unsaid

CHORUS

…the bookshop and the bells of Notre Dame

DON’T CALL PANMELLIS “PAM”!

The bookshop and the bells of Notre Dame.