Reposted by Dr Dani Hall
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Dr Dani Hall
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Recently completed a doctoral research project (focus on school governance) at the University of Reading. Also here as @academicgifts.bsky.social.
![[Scene is a 1960s suburban sitting room, with a grand piano in it. The religious songwriter ESTELLE WHITE is sat at the piano, with a rotary phone sat on top of the lid. She is on the phone to her music publisher, someone I've made up called JERRY]
1
ESTELLE WHITE:
OK Jerry
I’ve got another banger for you
2
ESTELLE WHITE:
Listen to this!
[She slams the receiver on the top of the piano].
3
ESTELLE WHITE [hammering on the piano]:
AUTUMN DAYS WHEN THE GRASS IS JEWELLED
AND THE SILK INSIDE A CHESTNUT SHELL!
JET PLANES MEETING IN THE AIR TO BE REFUELLED, ALL THESE -
JERRY [voice from the phone handset]:
Eh?
4
JERRY:
What was that last bit, Estelle?
ESTELLE WHITE:
“Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled”…
5
JERRY:
Is that a thing you often see in autumn?
ESTELLE WHITE [Smoking from a long cigarette holder]:
All the time, Jerry. Aaaaall the time....
6
JERRY:
Nothing to do with it being the only thing that rhymes with ‘jewelled’?
ESTELLE WHITE:
No!
7
ESTELLE WHITE:
It’s one of the high-speed, high-altitude feats of military aviation one often sees in autumn time.
8
JERRY:
What about leaves and squirrels and -
ESTELLE WHITE:
Now listen, Jerry.
9
ESTELLE WHITE:
Do you want a crap hymn about conkers…
10
ESTELLE WHITE:
Or do you want an all-time earworm banger that everyone who hears it will sing in their heads, every single time they see a fallen leaf, until the day they die?
11
JERRY:
OK… sorry… carry on…
12
ESTELLE WHITE:
FROS-TY WINDOWS ON HARR-IER JUMPJETS AND THE SMELL OF NUCLEAR SUB-MAR-INES…
JERRY:
How about acorns?
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