White Wine in the Sun

Greeted the new year morning listening to David Tennent's "Desert Island Discs". Among the 8 tracks he chose, alongside The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, the Kaiser Chiefs and Billy Bragg, was your own "White Wine in the Sun" - and not only that, it was chosen as the one David would chose above all others if pushed to save one from the onslaught ofwaves.

This song has a feat that it shares with Elgar's "Nimrod" - it reminds Rachel of her late dad and always brings a tear to eyes, It reminds us of a wonderful Christmas we spent with family in New Zealand in 1998. John was in his atheist version of heaven, eating sausages from a barbie on the beach on Christmas Day. I can understand his joy...