[00:04.297]Emm...good evening...
[00:06.825]Or should I say good morning?
[00:07.988]The time is twenty-five to five
[00:11.563]And I've been sitting here for some time now,
[00:14.454]Actually I
[00:18.655]After a party which I quite enjoyed, but you know it
[00:23.004]One has one reservations when one has quite enjoyed oneself,
[00:27.017]But one has to make reservations because, uh,
[00:31.392]The people were particularly interesting.
[00:33.329]In fact, there weren't as many people there as I expected there to be,
[00:37.834]It was, I thought...you know,
[00:40.223]The Maynard-Mitchells have a big big do
[00:43.814]In fact there weren't nearly as many as one might have thought,
[00:48.076]Which was, which was a pity.
[00:51.655]In fact, I think I must have drunk rather a lot
[00:54.472](Or although it seemed so at the time I felt myself quite sober)
[00:55.529]
[00:57.518]But when I leapt into the car to drive home
[00:59.980]After my merry abandon
[01:04.154]I found the task extremely difficult!
[01:06.659]And it was extremely fortunate
[01:09.560]That, um, there was nothing else on the road because, looking back at it,
[01:14.893]I seem to remember I had a mental brainstorm
[01:19.130](Well, I didn't realise at the time)
[01:20.639]And I think I drove the whole way home on the righthand side of the road!
[01:24.411]Which is something of course which comes from driving in France too much,
[01:30.103]Which is what I've been doing recently,
[01:33.038]As you probably know, driving in France, you know.
[01:36.438]And in moments of stress such as was this journey home,
[01:41.841]One forgets so easily- the lies, the truth and the pain.
[01:47.016]And so I'm wavering from the point
[01:50.682]What I was trying to say...is uhm,
[01:53.204]When I sat here I had an extremely pleasant time on the piano, actually
[01:57.454]I was playing the piano and sort of singing,
[02:01.464]And I rather fear I might have kept people awake upstairs
[02:07.676]One hopes not, but it was pleasant, and it's extremely pleasant sitting here now,
[02:09.948]Because I think there is something extraordinarily nice
[02:13.013]About seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed,
[02:16.001]Because there's something uncanny about it
[02:18.423]When it suddenly becomes light, because one connects darkness with going to bed,
[02:22.315]Surely... um, and when one is still up when it becomes light,
[02:24.870]And it's a new day, and you still haven't gone to bed to sleep
[02:29.491](Because the night equals sleep, so easily)
[02:32.296]And when one is still up when the new day begins
[02:34.718]It is something of an intriguing experience, I always find.
[02:38.423]I can look out of the window now, and that tree over there is green,
[02:42.456]Whereas before one goes to bed,
[02:45.931]Just when one goes to bed, that tree should be black, surely!
[02:48.311]Everything should be black before one goes to bed,
[02:51.540]But that is surely the essence of the Romantic!
[02:55.926]Anyway, I think I'm straying from the point.
[02:58.421]I should probably stop talking now
[02:59.967]Because, um, if I don't I shall start sort of relating on life histories and things,
[03:05.073]Which will be frightfully tedious.
[03:09.693]So it's here that I'll sort of say goodnight, you know...
[03:11.472]Goodnight!