Driving on UK roads is an utterly different experience. We hired a Fiat 500 for ten days and on this day headed off to Brighton to see a mate. Unlike Australia, people don't drive at 100 kmph - they fang it at well over that! On the motorway you are constantly passed by drivers going over twenty MILES an hour faster than you.

It's also cool seeing all sorts of different cars. Of course there's a lot of smaller cars like the Fiat 500 hybrid we chose too. Despite the speeds, I trust British drivers a lot more than Australian ones. Maybe it's because they HAVE to pay more attention.

Anyway, back to #threetunetuesday hosted by @ablaze. For today's drive we chose to listen to Rodney P radio. Here's the three songs I liked enough to share.

Vibrate: Mr Scruff

This one is definitely an old favourite of mine. The lyrics are just so different to what you'd expect from this kind of tune.

The lyrics are quite poignant - a reflection on historical and societal throughout time, addressing injustice, labour struggles, and how people can change society through resistance. I don't usually but thought I'd paste them here as they are so good. It's such a song of human experience.

Sham
Yeah, you can call me that
As I walk with the Luddites and my crusty axe
I'm a whole lot removed from the Domini Pax
The pacts with the church and the new poll tax
I haven't got the pox, I've turned twenty-eight
My mate's thirty-one but he's dying from the plague
Life's a bitch right now and I can still hear the hills
Resonate
Watch my carbon vibrate mate
And I'm way down the mine
In another lifetime
But I don't how this canary keeps chirping
And my lungs are tight
When you've got to keep working
What's the point in life
There's a hundred miners here in the union
March through the manor while the owner takes communion
I'm going in to get my wage for last year
Plus a big bag of food
One of them big chandeliers
I affect the state and affect the earth
And pass my spirit on again
Until it's triggered by a birth
I resonate
You Resonate
I say echo
You vibrate
I'm in this for a better life
Staying clever
Got the soldiers on the hop
Slept in the oak tree
Raided a crop
They probably think I'm catholic
'Cause of my name
I caught the King's deer
They were giving me fame
And they heard about my antics
Up at the castle
When I didn't pay my taxes
Down came the hassle
They burnt my village and my family at the stake
I felt the whole ground shake
Why?
'Cause spirits resonate
They want my pagan head
Turn the hunters in my band and that's as good as it gets
We affect
You affect
Everybody move your molecules
From your nails to your follicles
Vibrate
It's eighteen fifty-six
I'm at the workhouse with my bundle of sticks
These people think I'm nuts
But they won't complain
When their lives get better cause of my campaign
Sabotage man with the Guy Fawkes precedent
Burn the city hall - smoke out the residents
Make a mark in my town and adjust my standard of living
Till my pitchfork rusts
Change the chain
Unchain all hands
Latter-day Scargill
I'll affect this land
I come in peace
From a small piece of dark
And I'm going back soon
So for now I'll make marks
Vibrate

We also found it quite amusing that people here just spray speed cameras with paint. In Australia they fine you for sneezing and would have the entire police force out looking for such a vandal. We saw on YouTube people do it to the ULEZ cameras as well.

THe other two tunes could be anything really from the mix I was listening to, but if you're into this vibe, here's another two tunes we were enjoying as we pootled along in the Fiat 500

On the way back we listened to a podcast, which I wanted to share here with ma tree and nature lovers. I reckon @antnn, @trucklife-family, and @fermentedphil might dig this one. You can find it here.

The outline of the podcast is this:

Biologist David Haskell once spent a whole year returning to the same rock to listen to trees. Fascinated by a particular square metre of forest in Tennessee, he would spend hours watching the life evolve in this tiny plot. Using his meditative approach to biology, he developed a way to record the unique acoustic signature of trees.
After being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014, he travelled the world listening to 12 of his favourite trees. They included a palm on a barrier island in the State of Georgia; a pear tree in Manhattan; an ancient Hazel tree, which had become archaeological charcoal; and a bonsai pine that survived the Hiroshima bombing. - ABC Listen

It was super inspiring and made me think a lot about the various senses we use to observe nature, plus there was some really interesting philosophy about wilderness and our relationship with trees. Let me know if you listen to it! I'd really like to get the book now too!