Hi, I´m Alvin Wick. That´s right, “Thursday´s Child has Far to Go”!
Why “Thursday´s Child has Far to Go?
So, what is this all about? This About page will explain. From the children´s nursery rhyme “Monday´s Child” we have “Thursday´s Child” describing the “traits” of a child born on a Thursday. This description from a very young age influenced me – “Thursday´s Child has Far to Go”. For me this has meant travel, a great life and career and loving one´s family and being loved in return. The latter being the most important part of my journey.
Sometimes I have even thought of myself as the “Traveller” and at wick.se through photo´s that I have taken I hope to be able to share some of these wonderful places with my friends and family. Even to the casual visitor to my site, I hope you to will find your visit an inspiring one.
The nursery rhyme “Monday´s Child”.
The first time that I can remember hearing and learning the nursery rhyme “Monday´s Child” was at Hallfield Primary School (Infant) in 1965. Taught to us young infants as a way of helping us remember the days of the week and not as the fortune-telling song that this nursery rhyme originates from.
Never heard of it. Never mind. You may still have heard it but not thought of where it came from.
A few lines of the rhyme are mentioned in the book “Mary Poppins comes back” and the cartoonist Charles Addams´s Wednesday Addams of his Addams Family was named after this rhyme. And the line “Wednesdays´ Child Is Full of Woe” is the title of the first episode of the 2022 TV series Wednesday based on the character, which also quotes the rhyme in the episode.
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