Please do not cross over the fence. The cache is on the south side, and climbing over it is a crime.
This is a part of the still-developing Mike Oldfield series of caches.
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(From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia)
As with Hergest Ridge and Tubular Bells, Ommadawn is another two-movement work. Mike Oldfield, as with Hergest Ridge, makes economic use of a relatively small number of subjects throughout Ommadawn and develops them extensively, both with musical variation and varying the instruments used. Each of the two movements of Ommadawn utilizes their own subjects without sharing them between the two movements. Oldfield sought out the ancient Celtic influence on English music and composed for traditional instruments such as uilleann pipes on the original LP version. A set of Northumbrian smallpipes were also recorded, and credited to "Herbie", but this recording was not used on the album.
In his autobiography, Changeling, Oldfield states that he just wanted "sounds" not "sensible" lyrics. He asked Clodagh Simonds, one of the musicians with whom he was working, to write down the first words that came into her head. This resulted in the following in English:
Daddy's in bed, The cat's drinking milk, I'm an idiot, And I'm laughing
The "lyrics" sung at the end of "Ommadawn (Part 1)" are:
Ab yul ann idyad awt
En yab na log a toc na awd
Taw may on omma dawn ekyowl
Omma dawn ekyowl
Oldfield states that Simonds had telephoned a relative or friend to translate into Irish for the song. The word "idiot" translated into amadán (often spelled in English as omadhaun) which he Anglicised into "Ommadawn" for the title of the album. Oldfield had previously denied this meaning of ommadawn, calling it a nonsense word, apparently as a ruse to enhance the mystery of his music.[9][10]