I was reading this week about Wick’s patron saint, an Irish bishop and missionary called Fergus the Pict (died c.730 AD). St Fergus didn’t confine himself to Caithness but founded a number of churches in north-east Scotland (the Aberdeen Breviary says he “occupied himself in converting the barbarous people”, still a fair description of […]
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The clocks in the UK went forward last night for Daylight Saving Time, and of course I’m wrecked. It’s like having seasonal jet lag. Every year I find myself wondering if even summer is worth all this grief (this being what my old Latin grammar teacher called ‘a question expecting the answer “no”’). Experience […] 
“Well, now that we have seen each other,” said the Unicorn, “If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?” (Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-Glass) We watched the classic 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland the other day. It was a bit disappointing, to be honest, and so […] 
It’s been a funny old week, weather-wise. Arctic air came sweeping down last Sunday, dropping a couple of inches of snow on us and then freezing it solid. Each day would dawn in blue skies and sunshine, just warm enough to melt the top layer of snow ready for it to freeze overnight, when it […] 
I came across a great Winston Churchill story this week. Churchill was famously informal, and frequently turned up to meetings in a silk dressing gown embroidered with dragons or his famous boiler suit “onesie”. He used to dictate letters in the bath and once speculated that President Roosevelt was the only head of state who’d […] |
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