Razrainia Lament disquiet0392

Dear Mr Williamson, Greetings from the, alas, long forgotten embassy of Razrainia. Thank you for your kind enquiry about our national anthem. I hope you find the enclosed tape satisfactory for your needs. We don’t often play it now for few of us know it any more. Sometimes one or two of us elders gather together on a hot summers night in one of the halls we used to use so freely during the day and play it quietly so as not to wake our guests. Regarding your question - no we never were invaded. I think perhaps we were just too polite. As visitors came to love our country we made room for them to stay without a fuss, letting them make their own improvements, withdrawing into forgotten rooms, using the crawl spaces, quietly doing the dishes and laundry until our guests seemed to forget we were there. We didn’t like to draw attention to ourselves, they all seemed to be having such fun and getting on with things. There aren’t many of us left anymore of course and perhaps that’s for the best. I look forward to meeting up with you again one day Regards Alexadra