In me is a little painted square
Bordered by old shops, with gaudy awnings.
Much Later — Gertrude Stein
Elephants and birds of beauty and a gold fish. Gold fish or a superstition. They always bring bad luck. He had them and …read more
Don’t worry, everything…gonna’ be alright.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and...
Memory for Scripture
They would always hold service two or three times a day, using these texts and what they remembered of the sermon connected with them. Read More
The Goon Show November 8th, 1955 – Shangri-La Again
Seagoon:
You skindrell of scoundrels, that’s matricide!
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The Bonfire Plot – Part 4
"Hanged, Drawn and Quartered..." Only eight of the original Plot survived. On a cold Monday, January 27, 1606, all the prisoners were brought from the Tower of London through Traitors Gate and onto a barge to go up-river to Westminster. John Winter was only 19, hardly...
The Bonfire Plot – Smoking out the Jesuits
Part 3: The True Mission of the Plot? Father John Gerard had already escaped by rope from the Tower once and, due to his relationship to the Gunpowder plot, saw himself heading there again. Father Gerard was at Harrowden where he was Chaplain. He was there on November...
The Bonfire Plot: Part 1
"We must blow up the King and his Parliament..." In 1604 four men, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, John Winter,and John Wright, all Catholics who had been personally affected by religious persecution and who were all related either by birth or marriage, met at the...
The Bonfire Plot – Who Is Guy Fawkes?
Guy Fawkes: Also known as John Johnson,or as Guido Fawkes apprehended on Nov 5th 1605, under the Houses of Parliamnent with hundreds of pounds of gunpowder and a handful of matches. Percy's man, 34 years old. Son of Edward Fawkes, proctor and advocate in the...