English Premiere League Finale (2024/25)
The English Premiere League (EPL) season ends today. The season was absolute rubbish for Saints Fans, but like spring baseball, hope springs eternal. The club has appointed a new manager Continue Reading →
Category Archives: England
Relegation Day (Southampton FC)
For the second time in three campaigns Southampton FC is relegated. The once venerable club and pride of the south has clueless/greedy owners (SR), poor managers, and lazy/turgid talentless players. Continue Reading →
Has it held, the warm June weather?
Why are British FILMS so good? I watched Love, Rosie on TUBI and it’s a beautiful movie. The other movie I watched while travelling was What If and it was Continue Reading →
The s(pace) between football matches: post sabbatical ruminations
This rootedness of reality in the concrete presence of the past is one of the things which makes history so important. We need to know where we’ve been in order Continue Reading →
Weekend 616.0
The Saints defeated Millwall 1-0 in a pre-season warm-up. That’s all I have right now.
Up the Saints!
“It’s a bit written in the stars, sometimes it’s not meant to be.” — Daniel Farke (Leeds Manager) The Saints defeated Leeds United 1-0 at Wembley and have been promoted Continue Reading →
Weekend 597.0 (Remember the Joy of my Annunciation)
(1) The Mystery of Walsingham – Our Lady’s Holy House Foundation (EWTN) (2) 2024 Lenten Meditations (Third Sunday of Lent) When the Child Jesus with the voice of a young Continue Reading →
Weekend 596.1
(1) A quote from Steeple Chasing: Around Britian by Church by Peter Ross: “Pluscarden Abbey was founded in 1230 by King Alexander II for monks of the Valliscaulian order. Between Continue Reading →
Weekend 596.0
Table 1: Top 20 most used stations in Great Britain, 2022-23 Station Entries/Exits Change from 2021-22 (% +) Liverpool Street 80,448,194 150 Paddington 59,182,926 148 Waterloo 57,789,780 40 London Bridge Continue Reading →
Weekend 595.0
(1) England’s Nazareth: Walsingham (The Imaginative Conservative) (1a) St. Augustine and J.R.R. Tolkien (The Imaginative Conservative) “To Newman, nineteenth-century liberalism and philosophic utilitarianism were the harbingers of a secular, modern Continue Reading →