Love, Poetry and Revolution - Wednesday 18th March 2026

It's strange how words or phrases that you consider to be commonplace or part of a shared language don't always transfer to your children.

After I showered this morning, son #3 was also going to take a shower. In jest, I said I was "done but not brown", which I thought was a good "off-the-cuff" pun. He didn't understand the pun, and so I had to explain (never the best way with puns or jokes) that "dun" is a shade of brown (greyish brown, officially), as used in the phrase "the dun cow". There are lots of pubs called "The Dun Cow" (look it up). There are als myths about them/it.

Oh, well. Never mind.

Whilst I was out walking, I was musing on this incident amongst other things and thought, 'I guess it's a bit like me reading Shakespeare and not understanding some of the phrases'. Like the line, "...Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo..." which many people believe (myself included, until I dug deeper) means 'where are you', which it does not.  It literally means "why are you Romeo?" and is Juliet bemoaning the fact that she's fallen for a bloke from 'the wrong family' (you need to read the play if you want to understand that fully).

I guess my work here is done, if not dun.

This song reminded me I should do an article or playlist about bands named after songs.  I was pleased to see that Ladytron have both a new album after quite a hiatus and are on tour. I could have gone to see them in Liverpool, their hometown, but other things in life are more pressing at the moment. Shame.  I especially love Helen Marnie's singing voice. Here's "A Death in London".