Be The Jam

Date 1st May

Stage Planning Expedition

Location Oxford

Weather Lovely sunny day (beginning to like this global warming thing)

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It's May Day today, a day for jumping off bridges, drinking all night, pubs opening at 5am, parties all day and all manner of Christians and pagans running about the place engaging in strange ceremonies. But why? What's it all about? Well I'm not sure but the centre of the celebrations is Magdalen bridge at dawn, as the sun comes up a choir on the roof of Magdalen college break into song whilst down bellow the throngs strain to hear / stand up / get past the police and jump into the river. I have a theory as to what it might all be about but I'm not sure about it. Magdalen bridge is fed at one end by two main roads, Cowley road and Iffley road. These two roads are named after ley lines The Coy Ley and the Iff Ley that the run along to their meeting point at the river, I rather suspect that the history of all the cavorting that goes on goes back to some kind of Pagan hoopla, May Poles and all that malarky.

Right that's the educashun over.

I didn't partake of the festivities this year, I have an interview today so I thought it probably best to get some sleep and not turn up covered in river so I went home early and walked through the woods in the light of the full moon. All around creatures scuttled off as I approached, not the door mice once I got home though. No, they are totally used to me and seem to spend their time jumping up and down in the leaves trying to wake me up, if they were not so rare I would be tempted to get out my Roman cook book and see how tasty they are. Despite the noise I got to sleep easily enough and slept right through until about 5am when I was woken by a sudden bright orange light. Looking out through the canopy of trees across the valley the sun was just breaking over the horizon in a magnificent explosion of warm orange light that seemed to envelope everything. I closed my eyes for a second to shake the sleep from my head so that I could take a better look but in the time it took to do so the sun had climbed above the hill, the orange was gone and the sun was shining brightly in the clear blues sky. I was tempted to get up and go for a walk but contented myself instead with rolling over and going back to sleep. All in all a good start to the summer.

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