This is my all-time favourite scene and song from a movie…EVER!!! Mary Poppins is my absolute favourite film, without a doubt its what inspired and delighted me in my first hours in England; the chimney pots, and prompted me to exclaim “I could live here” – I’d been in England for approximately 2 hours when I said that, and I’ve never looked back or changed my mind…except for occasionally threatening to move to Italy or Portugal on shitty weather days – like today ๐ค ๐
I’ve sat on the steps of St Paul’s cathedral, in as close to this position as possible and had my hot chips, on one of my many forays into the city.
I can never get through listening to or singing this song without crying.
Even as I think about it, it brings tears to my eyes. And I’m not even sure why…coz I don’t like pigeons๐ณ ๐๐๐
I remember getting ‘tingles’ when I heard Feed The Birds in the cinema in 1965 or thereabouts, it’s a song that’s always stayed with me. The part where the music swells and the ‘camera’ pans up to the top of the cathedral, even now my spine tinglesโฆ
It always brings tears to my eyes. One of the first things I did after arriving in the UK, was to find that spot on the steps of St Paul’s…I ate my lunch there ๐