Vagabonds are we
"Wealth I seek not; hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850?1894), Songs of Travel "The Vagabond"
Note: The Rainy Day team is travelling. However, Movable Type has been primed and the Rainy Day sister in Limerick is in charge of the blog. This combination of nepotism and world-class nano-publishing system will ensure that the site is updated regularly.
Diarist of the day: Barbara Castle, 9 September 1966"Good press on the Severn Bridge — and my hat. It is almost incredible how much the spotlight is put on one's appearance by TV. Millions of people just talking about the HAT — and about the fact that I bowed instead of curtseying to the Queen. The Sun had a nice photo of me facing the Queen but smiling past her. I was in fact smiling at one of Philip's cracks. When he saw my name as Minister of Transport on the commemorative plaque he said, 'That's pretty cool. It was practically finished before you came along. 'Not a bit of it,' I replied. 'It is entirely due to me that it was finished five months ahead of schedule.' "
