'Well, Pooh.'
'Well, Piglet.'
'Another lovely evening.'
'Indeed. Especially when you consider the significance of evening as a dividing line between the pressures and busyness of the day and the period of calm, rest and reflection that is night-time.'
'What?'
'Further, the special properties of evening have been celebrated in works as diverse as William Collins's "Ode To Evening", a lyric with wistful overtones of the pastoral, first published in 1746, and "When The Deep Purple Falls", a song in the light romantic vein popularised by Nino Tempo and April Stevens in 1963.'
'All I said was -- '
'And what better place in which to appreciate evening than this, our very own Wood -- '
'Pooh, what are you -- ?'
' -- referring, of course, to a certain acreage of land which, while often expansive enough in itself, does not cover the same quantity of ground as would normally be associated with a forest -- '
'I have no idea why -- '
' -- but which can often make up for its smaller or more compact or indeed bijou size by offering a delightful mixture of deciduous trees, deciduous meaning "to shed" or "to fall off", as evidenced by such as the oak or the beech or indeed the maple, this last being the national tree or growth or super-sized pot plant of Canada -- '
'Now just wait a min -- '
' -- and evergreen trees, such as box, holly and juniper, this last happily lending itself to the title of a song written and popularised by Donovan, a troubadour born in 1946 in the Maryhill district of Glasgow.'
'Pooh, what is all this?'
'Being a line from a track on "The Move", debut album by the band or combo or indeed massive of that very same name, released in April 1968, the track itself being called "Weekend" and the line in full being "Holy mackerel, yeah, what is all this?"'
'Pooh!! Why are you talking this way?'
'AI.'
'Aye-aye?'
'No A-I. Artificial Interloper. Wonderful. All you have to do is feed in key words and it generates conversation endlessly. Terrific, the site I've found.'
'What's that?'
'ShutYerChatgpt.'
'Yes, well, I think I've heard enough -- so that'll do.'
'A song popularised by Peter Gabriel though in fact penned by Randy Newman, Gabriel's version having been released in 1998. With its haunting refrain, "That'll do, babe, that'll do", the song celebrates the beauties of a kind and steady heart, which ensured its status as a firm favourite among such radio presenters as Terry Wogan, born in 1938 in Limerick, a major city in the Repub -- '
'Aaaiiieeeee!'
'Being the cry or outburst or eruption by vanquished foes in such graphic publications as Fleetwood Comics, whose titles include "Commandos Die Hard", "Tank Alert" and "Ravens Over Berlin", and usually uttered in response to such directives as "Die, Pig Dog!" or "Sayonara, Bub!"
'And Sayonara to you, too, Pooh.'
'"You, too, Pooh" being of course a delightful example of assonance, as in "bright, white light" -- oh, Piglet, don't go.'
'I absolutely have to go -- right now.'
'Being the first sizeable hit for The Moody Blues, a group or cohort or indeed clump formed in May 1964 in Birming....'
