Rise and Shine! ☀️🦚 [I Love Birds, All Birds] The Lesser-Spotted Bellbird, in the 'Grandisson Psalter', c.1270, BL Add. 21926 f208.v. Rather ominously, at the foot of a page containing the start of the Office for the Dead!
Taking a straw poll Poll (23) See Poll Options I have no practical use for this straw bag I found in a charity shop but I will now be revolving every outfit around it. PS I can't think of...See More »
Where did all the gooseberries go? In the mediaeval period, hedgehogs were far more a pest than the loveable and endangered creatures they are today. From the "Northumberland Bestiary", c.1250.
Christus Resurrexit! [I Am Roman Catholic] O truly blessed night, worthy alone to know the time and hour when Christ rose from the underworld! This is the night of which it is written: The night shall be as bright as day, dazzling is the night for me, and full of gladness. Also the...See More »
On Psalm 29 (28) I found the young unicorns! (Quote) And also saw first-hand the effects of a blistering 11°C spring day
Hell: don't go there! A vision of the future? I hope not! From the opening page of the Requiem Mass, in a missal of c.1492, 'Latin 16827' f.58v, in the Bibliothèque National de France) [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60012792/f720.item.r=Latin%2016827]
Sunday Beauty in Two Forms Now mes parents have both been m̶i̶c̶r̶o̶c̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d vaccinated, Sundays can return to the natural lockdown idyll of 30 mile round journeys to go to Mass...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! [I Love Wales] Don't have any pictures of leeks or daffodils to hand, so have some of St David's (Tyddewi, if you prefer), from about this time last year.
My superpower......is non existent. If anyone doubts this, then today, 26th February, marks the anniversary of my moving my entire life to London, 2 weeks before the Great Plague forced me to move it all back home to my parents house again.
Epic Joust!!! Just think how much cooler the Olympics would be... The text above it is on the left, the rubric (instructions) for the Monday in the 3rd Week of Lent, and on the right, part of the Old Testament lesson for that Mass - IV Kings (what we now call...See More »
Horses at Home The best thing about having a desk facing a paddock is that you’ll be occupied with some boring task, and then a horse will appear from nowhere to see if anything interesting is happening.