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For anyone familiar with Jimmy Webb's baroque pop erm classic featuring ole Dumbledore himself...

Know we have some fans of the Bella stable on here. Played this far too many times today. But it is quite lovely...

Was walking past Kings Cross the other day contemplating how the immediate area around the station had changed, when I remembered a rail journey I’d made up north some years ago which had terminated there.

It was a cold and rainy Sunday night as I arrived back in London, and as the train pulled in I’d literally just finished the last page of Orwell’s 1984. Think the combination of the book, the awful weather, time of night and a nigh-on empty train had left me feeling pretty melancholy as I disembarked.

I was pretty new to the city and must have wandered out of a station side exit only to find myself in a deserted street lined by old railway arches. It had started to rain quite hard now and there wasn’t anyone else around. I could hear the metallic echo of the station tannoy making its last announcements and paused to work out where I was.

Filled with thoughts of Orwell’s stark totalitarian future, I had the strangest feeling, stood there looking up and down such a bleak scene – with the few streetlights flickering in the rain and rubbish strewn everywhere. Then to top it all off a police helicopter buzzed overhead, its searchlight dancing around the tops of the buildings in the backstreets.

That was me straight off. Anyone else had an out-of-book experience?