Last month I spent the guts of a weekend watching Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back mini-series on Disney+, which documented their time making the Let It Be album, culminating in that rooftop performance in Central London. Here is Paperback Writer by the Beatles, one of their non-album singles from 1966. As I’ve had to read so many books over the last few weeks (my chosen author for my project was the wonderfully clever Kate Atkinson), I think something about writers might be a good idea. WIAA: How about sharing a song to take your mind off things?Īlyson: Always a joy WIAA, although not much time today for all the background research I like to include around here. Of course that didn’t happen, and our lecturers did put the processes in place for us to sit our finals, but with only seven weeks left to go on my current course, I’m experiencing a terrible sense of déjà vu albeit on a far scarier level.
Rumours went round that young males (our boyfriends) would be conscripted. Some of our lecturers lost the will to tutor us, such was their dismay at what had happened. Those stressful last few weeks were overshadowed by the fact our country went to war, with a large South American country. Exactly 40 years ago right now I was in the midst of studying for my finals, at University.
WIAA: Again, understandable then that you’ve not been feeling ‘blogging inclined’.Īlyson: Here’s the irony WIAA. I can’t pretend to understand all the background detail to what’s going on, and it’s complicated, not black and white, but could the 21st century really get any worse? It’s also not lost on me that just as we seemed to be finally getting back to normal after two years of pandemic-related anxiety and restrictions, the biggest, most scary scenario imaginable has actually come to pass.
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