Judy Dyble - (In the) Dreamtime

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)

This song has been lodged in my head since I heard a character singing it in an episode of Island at War, so naturally it must be shared. It's a very good series, by the way. It's set in the Channel Islands during the German Occupation (which turned out to be the setting for my NaNoWriMo novel and is the reason I found the series in the first place.) And it also stars Philip Glenister!

NaNowrimo 2011 Extract 1 (Daedalus, Icarus and Ariadne)

Daedalus, father of Icarus, presented his son with his greatest invention: a set of wings constructed painstakingly from the fallen feathers of the birds in the skies over Crete by day and sealed to the wood and copper frame with the wax of the candles that lit the workshop by night. Daedalus gave his son freedom in the form of flight. His breath caught as Icarus bravely stepped forth, up the steps to the window.

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