In Spring....with James Brown in blackpropaganda

a young man’s fancies… and an older man’s too.
Anyway enough of that - at the moment the sun in shining after rain and wind overnight - and the daffodils are straining to break into bloom - while there I have seen banks of snowdrops this week. So things are warming up.
Even two goldfinches eating seed from the feeders - the first since I have filled them up - so I hope they will be back and bring their friends.
We certainly needed the wood burning stove last night while slumped in front of the box - actually I was lying on the sofa resting my back since if I sit in a chair it just gets stiff (OK, no sniggers at the back please).
The Voice on BBC1 is nothing outstanding, but filled in a couple of hours of well organised entertainment - then over to BBC2 for the second of Reginald D Hunter’s survey of Southern US music - this time Alabama and Georgia - and his take on race (he is a black standup comedian from Georgia originally now domiciled in the UK), politics and white/black culture. Then, a follow up, a programme on the career of James Brown from the start to 1970s which was superb with great archive footage - especially his concert in Boston the day Martin Luther King was shot and there was a real danger of the city going up in flames - and showing how he diffused the tension.