Wednesday 12th August

This was a track on The Beatles Double White Album.  It is pretty rocking and was actually written by McCartney, though from the sentiment one would have suspected it to be by John Lennon.  The Double White album, as it has become known though only The Beatles was embossed on the cover came after Sergeant Pepper, and though the former was lauded at the time as the best album ever the White Album has weathered better and sounds far more modern than Pepper.  I actually prefer the mini-album Magical Mystery Tour to Pepper.  Maybe with the death of Brian Epstein they wanted to get back to basics a bit more, though the Double White does have its fair share of excess.  And maybe Paul, always far more conscious of his image and his legacy wanted to show us that he was indeed a rock’n’roller.  The lyrics are very basic “No-one’s really watching us, Why Don’t we do it in the road”, repeated in a more and more hysterical screaming voice.  But like Helter Skelter on the same record they showed a different harder edge to McCartney.

Here in Eymet the pavements are pretty ropey, full of cracks and dips and wobbly bits and broken concrete, so most of us Eymetois tend to walk in the roads, until a car comes along and forces us off.  This is not applicable however to one of our dogs, Polly, who incidentally likes the middle of the road as her favourite toilet spot and no amount of cars will dislodge her when she has started.  I often look at her and sing “Why don’t we do it in the road.”  Hahaha…