Songs of Home - Haar
“I wrote ‘Drifting’ around this time 2 years ago during a time of reflection and warm, hazy nostalgia. It is a song about childhood and a snippet of some time spent living in the remote Northumberland hills. Here we built dens, climbed hay bales, got chased by farmers, picked mushrooms and crushed sandstone to collect sand - which we brought back in buckets to the garden to put in the sandpit. It is about being grateful for having wilderness and landscape as a playground and growing up alongside my brothers. It is about having a place to escape from and return to with the comfort of knowing it will always be there, in time and in memory.
The term ‘Jenkins drifting’ is a family trait which involves drifting off into space and daydreaming, often mid-conversation. This is my happy place.
