Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes
WHAT do Desert Island Discs have in common with Covent Garden? Both to do with music? Yes . . . but my answer is not nearly so obvious as that. Come on all you Morse fans. This one is in code, and the Inspector could crack any enigma.
Give up? I don't blame you. But the scene shown here of Crambe maritima (sea kale) growing on the shingle beach north of Selsey Bill always spells two things to me. One is the blue of the bay which goes on round to Bognor Regis and was the inspiration for the music Sleepy Lagoon by Eric Coates.
He lived nearby at Sidlesham. Another of his famous tunes was Music While You Work which kept the nation's factory workers happy at their lathes making everything from Spitfires to sugar during World War Two. Why he was never honoured for his contributions to the nation is to me a national disgrace.
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