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i_kenderCynics, cover your ears... last Friday, some of you might have heard, there was a whale spotted swimming up the Thames. It caused a fuss. I really wish I'd heard about it in time to go and see it. Must have been quite a sight.
There's something magical and marvellous about a whale on the Thames.
Sadly, it didn't survive. Surprisingly many newspapers covered the story. I particularly liked this passage from the Observer:
"In a month or less we will have forgotten; but the day will surely serve as some kind of benchmark. In the last day or so lovers will have been taken, jobs will have been won and lost, novels begun, tears shed at funerals, new life conceived and, when asked can you remember when that happened, we can answer: I remember it well, because it was that day. The day a whale sailed through the middle of London; and the people of the city, rather than trying to hack it to death, came in their thousands and lifted it and tried their hardest to sail it back."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1691203,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1692350,00.html
There's something magical and marvellous about a whale on the Thames.
Sadly, it didn't survive. Surprisingly many newspapers covered the story. I particularly liked this passage from the Observer:
"In a month or less we will have forgotten; but the day will surely serve as some kind of benchmark. In the last day or so lovers will have been taken, jobs will have been won and lost, novels begun, tears shed at funerals, new life conceived and, when asked can you remember when that happened, we can answer: I remember it well, because it was that day. The day a whale sailed through the middle of London; and the people of the city, rather than trying to hack it to death, came in their thousands and lifted it and tried their hardest to sail it back."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1691203,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1692350,00.html
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Date: 2006-01-26 05:12 pm (UTC)Poor whale. It was probably very ill to begin with. But what wonderful news stories, with pictures of Londoners trying their damndest to rescue it. It warmed my heart to read about it.