This was a reissue of the CD version of the album originally released by Columbia Nippon (itself a reissue of the original Rough Trade vinyl release).

The album's theme was a blend of live recordings of countryside sounds and music written by Virginia designed to evoke the atmosphere of a summers day.

Each side of the album was titled 'Morning' and 'Afternoon'.

The sound effects used on the album were recorded at various times between April and June 1982 at locations in and around Moulsford, Oxfordshire.

A Summer Long Since Past originally featured as the B-Side to the 12" release of the single Love's A Lonely Place To Be in January 1983.

When The Fields Were On Fire originally appeared on the compilation cassette Meridians Two released in May 1983.

Sanctus was one of four bonus tracks featured on the album and originally featured on Virginia's 1982 A Bao A Qu EP.

Melt The Snow - and the two tracks following it - were taken from the 1985 Melt The Snow EP.

The first Melt The Snow instrumental track was originally titled Bell Of New York, taken from the title of the barrel organ melody that opens the song.

The second instrumental was untitled on the original Melt The Snow EP, but had originally featured on a 1983 radio session where it was called The Nursery At The End Of Time. The track subsequently featured as the B-Side to the November 1985 single Darkness Has Reached Its End where it was simply titled The End Of Time.

Happy Valley was Virginia's own label. The album was licenced to Columbia Nippon for distribution.

Russell Webb was also a member of The Skids and The Armoury Show.

A Summer Long Since Past was titled A Summer Long Since Passed when it originally featured as the B-Side to Love's A Lonely Place To Be.

The barrel organ intro to the first Melt The Snow instrumental track was actually recorded by Virginia from a juke box in the London department shop Fortnum & Mason.