Weekend 504.0
Arrived early enough to Southampton to say my Rosary at St. Edmund’s. I think many fans left St. Mary’s this afternoon thinking the club is going to get relegated if Continue Reading →
Category Archives: England
Weekend 495.0 (Now is thus)
(1) The Battle of Towton (1a) The Towton Ring (British Museum) (2) “Now is the winter of our discontent” – Richard III by William Shakespeare (2a) King Richard III had Continue Reading →
Dover via Canterbury
At Dover CliffsScarce hear the surge that has for ages beat,Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood;And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear,And o’er the distant billows the still Continue Reading →
Weekend 486.1 (A Tale of Two Cities)
My morning ride was to central London (the area around Old Street) whilst my afternoon ride included the bucolic streets of Ham and the hills of Richmond Park. There’s a Continue Reading →
Modernity in miniature
(1) I’ve clipped the blog post title from a chapter in the excellently written British Rail Architecture 1948-97 by David Lawrence. “For centuries architects have used miniature versions of their Continue Reading →
Weekend 460.0
(1) A quote from In Unfamiliar England by Thos D. Murphy: “The most impressive feature of the abbey ruin is the massive square tower of the gateway, which stands intact, Continue Reading →
2018/2019 by the numbers…
I’m using my retreats as bookends so the timeline covers the period between December 7-9, 2018 and December 20-22, 2019. What I didn’t know before my first retreat ended is Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving 2019
(1) American Interior (1935) by Charles Sheeler (2) Game Over: How technology forced traditional toys to evolve (Vera) (3) Great Western Railway: Adventures with the Famous Five (YouTube) (4) A Continue Reading →
Weekend 454.0
A couple of quotes from Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins: “Previously governor of Greenwich Hospital, Hardy† had earlier in the year been Continue Reading →