To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday this morning - if indeed it is his birthday today - Radio 3 plays the scherzo from Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night’s Dream' and Arne's 'When Daisies Pied', sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
The song is another addition to cuckoo music (blogged here) and the verse from Love's Labour's Lost is one of the many references to the natural world in Shakespeare that sounds increasingly elegiac.
‘He’s living his best life’: drunk raccoon hit DMV for snacks before liquor
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Officials say raccoon that broke into Virginia liquor store on 29 November
had previously hit DMV and karate studio
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