HomeThis aye night
In which we want to snuggle up by the fire
The changing of the clocks has left me feeling a little tired and disorientated. It’s not surprising that there are more car accidents in this week, as people adjust to the shift.
Driving home just now,* in the dark and heavy blattering rain, I wanted to be warm and cosied up in bed. Driving in the rain at night always makes me wonder what it must have been like to live before electric heating and lights. It also makes me think of the Lyke Wake Dirge – for no apparent reason, because there’s nothing to connect the Dirge with bad weather. It’s a very evocative text, though.
This aye night, this aye night,
Every night and all,
Fire and fleet and candle-light
And Christ take up thy soul
* Not from work – it’s gone 10pm. I don’t work that late.