Image from Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs, illustrated by Aurelius Battaglia and found via this blog.
For weeks I've been meaning to blog about an amazing episode of Storyville that I watched, called The Golden Age Of Circus. It's over an hour of old footage from various sideshows and circuses with no commentary, rather a musical soundtrack that the clips have been edited to dance along to. There are so many beautiful sights in it and plenty of mouth-hanging-open-with-horror sights too, really amazing to see. I think it's available on iPlayer for another seven days if you fancy watching. I'm planning to rewatch if I can - no better way to spend an hour, I reckon.
Talking of circuses, Graham's mum took us all to see the Moscow State Circus a few weeks back and it was so good. Being the clumsy oaf that I am, I find it fascinating to watch acrobatic types flinging themselves around with ease. When a very elegant tightrope-walking lady got hoisted to to the highest point of the big top on an invisible wire, Dulcie actually turned to me and said, "Mum, I never knew you got people who could fly!" Ahh, the wonder of youth :)
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