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June Gleanings

I find it some consolation that whatever indignities the Catholic Church has suffered in recent years, it retains its pre-eminence in the art of casuistry. (Letter in The Times from Sir Richard Stagg about the Prime Minister’s marriage at Westminster Cathedral) 10th September 2012. The idea of His Blondness with a finger on the nuclear button… Continue reading June Gleanings

Old Hammersmith

This is what I saw yesterday at the top of the escalators on the first floor of Charing Cross Hospital. It was commissioned “for the benefit of elderly patients” and being one myself I drank it in, so to speak.

Walnut

In this picture the peregrine chick is thirty-six days old. Nathalie expects her to fledge in about a week.

Essential Classics

Radio 4’s offerings on weekday mornings do not appeal to me: Woman’s Hour and You and Yours with nothing of much interest in between.

Oh Gee, Oh Joy!

That falcon chick is most contrary. On the first day we are allowed to go inside it came outside its nest box yesterday to enjoy the rain.

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Usutu Virus

I hoped I’d achieved hedge immunity against the box moth; however, it appeared at the end of last month, much earlier than I expected.

The Year of Wisteria

“Dear patient it is with regret that we have to cancel your appointment with Bogdan the Nurse today.” (sic, text received at 8.00 am this morning)