Badger's Drift

     Off to Cardiff yesterday and a matinee performance of 'Badger's Drift' at the New Theatre.  This is an adaptation of 'The Killings at Badger's Drift', the first episode of the ITV detective series 'Midsomer Murders'.  Written and directed by Guy Unsworth, it starred Daniel Casey plus very hard working ensemble cast.  Fans of Midsomer will know Casey played DS Troy in the tv productions.  I, though, am not a fan, (neither do I hate it); the theatre, however, was full, which is good to see. The original screen adaptation of the novel by Caroline Graham was by Anthony Horowitz.  A touring production w interesting use of scenery etc, which reminding me of similar technique in the National Theatre of Wales adaptation of  Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'. 

April

April by John Clare (1793-1864)

The infant april joins the spring

And views its watery skye

As youngling linnet trys its wing

And fears at first to flye

With timid step she ventures on

And hardly dares to smile

The blossoms open one by one

And sunny hours beguile

But finer days approacheth yet

With scenes more sweet to charm

And suns arrive that rise and set

Bright strangers to a storm

And as the birds with louder song

Each mornings glory cheers

With bolder step she speeds along

And looses all her fears

In wanton gambols like a child

She tends her early toils

And seeks the buds along the wild

That blossom while she smiles

And laughing on with nought to chide

She races with the hours

Or sports by natures lovley side

And fills her lap with flowers