Bobs bits n bobs

I'm in England this w/e, visiting my mother with Thelma & Louise Dau.I and Dau.II. As we're tooling along the by-ways, past various village greens, I'll probably start to hum some English ditties :-

• Elgar Nimrod
• Yetties [prev] Fling it 'ere
• Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending
• The Who Pinball Wizard
• Trad Greensleeves
• Manfred Mann Pretty Flamingo (back in the 1960s, when we lived in Portsmouth my Mum knew Mrs Pond lead singer Paul Jones' mother)
• Navy Hearts of Oak

Other Matter:

• Matter:  Withnail
• Butchery - prev hawg - now hoggett by Scott Rea; thais is Part II folks of stern stuff than me may click through to Part.I Silencing the lamb
• St Noam of MIT [R] speaks truth to power BBC
• Nigel Owens rugger referee - Respeck!
• Murray Gell-Mann died last week. 
• The Edge remembers
• Culverts, pressure, box v circle
• We were sailing to Byzantium earlier in the week
• A sword from that era surfaced in 2016
• BBC Minidoc on the rising of the Vasa
• Lean on Me or Lean Ong Mee: nice kids, nice kit