I’ve been in a Passion Play with Nigerian-inspired costumes. Can you tell what role I played?

My wife saw this on a tour today of Henry VIII’s private apartments at Hampton Court today in apartments for ladies in waiting. Apparently, this product was customisable for arms and heraldic devices of one’s choice. But I bet you needed to buy in bulk. Legal Style Blog Benjamin Lewis

I’ve been seeing revival on the ground lately. In individual cases, it seems to come from a desire to know someone who genuinely cares for them, no matter what. They know they are flawed, but they don’t want to be abandoned when they are jobless, sick, or otherwise in trouble.

A perspective in Nature Astronomy on Martian terraforming research by DeBenedictis et al. There’s a little bit of momentum in Silicon Valley behind this now, so if there were interested funders, these are the people to contact: nature.com/articles/s4155…

The hardest word for me to handle cognitively in that Bleak House passage is “wonderful,” because the word today has become yet another superlative of “good.” It takes me a couple of read-throughs to realise Dickens means it as a synonym to “surprising.”

Quite a shift in the timetable at London Waterloo between last Sunday and this. I know why, but it’s a shift.

Passed a school named after Archdeacon (George) Cambridge. He went to Queen’s Oxford and was Archdeacon of Middlesex. Well, that’s two strikes for nominative determinism.

One major defect of Anglican Church music is that there are enough festal settings of Quicunque vult. Can anyone post any I am missing in this thread?

London c. 1900 (quote from Rev. Richard Free, Seven Years’ Hard) Cc Dr Francis Young The Prayer Book Society

I used to go trick or treating at Lord Wedgwood’s.

Enjoyed this howler from ⁦Country Life⁩ this morning.

I’m listening to a service where they have sung Urbs Beata Ierusalem in Latin and are now singing Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation.

London transport tonight: bus, Tube, train, train, foot tunnel, bus, home.

Potential personal union between Denmark and Spain was not on my 2025 bingo card.

Convinced someone to go to L'pool Parish Church based on the Caddie Woodlawn connections.

Mayor of Liverpool Samuel Graves gave this very large BCP as a wedding present to his son.