Weekend 533.0
I was in Portsmouth on Saturday for Pompey versus Gills. Portsmouth is owned by former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner¹. Gillingham is in a League One relegation battle that Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Weekend
Weekend 532.0
(1) This is from The Cathedrals of England by Alec Clifton-Taylor: Armature: A metal framework, in the Middle Ages always of iron, introduced into a large untraceried window to support Continue Reading →
Easter Weekend 2022
“Grey towers of Durham, Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles. Half church of God, half castle ‘gainst the Scot, And long to roam these venerable aisles, With Continue Reading →
Weekend 531.0
When I left Cambridge this morning it wasn’t snowing or as cold as it was on Palm Sunday 1461 in Towton. The placard for the White Horse Inn on the Continue Reading →
Weekend 529.0 (Towton and York)
“This battayl was sore foughten, for hope of life was set on every parte and takynge of prisoners was proclaimed as a great offence, by reason whereof every man determined Continue Reading →
Weekend 528.0 (Barnet)
A quote from the The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “The fog lent the fighting a more desperate edge than usual. Hand-gunners and archers fired at the invisible enemy at Continue Reading →
Weekend 527.1
“When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation Continue Reading →
Weekend 527.0 (RW388)
“I’m attracted to decay. I suppose; in a way to ugliness too. A derelict house gets me.” — Laurence Stephen Lowry I’ll organize my thoughts later into something coherent but Continue Reading →
Weekend 526.1 (Atomic Silence)
(1) Brompton has revealed plans to invest as much as £100m in a new UK factory that will secure its place as the UK’s biggest bicycle manufacturer. (Business Matters: UKs Continue Reading →
Weekend 526.0 (palaces made of lime and stone)
“People simply refused to believe what was happening…” Finished The Brothers York by Thomas Penn. Some more quotes, substitutions, archeological curiosities, and final thoughts (and what comes next). Quotes “Late Continue Reading →