something of the chameleon

      Today is the Eve of Whitsun - Whitsunday - Pentecost.  The day churches celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Disciples wh...

     This is a response (a little tongue-in-cheek, perhaps) to the proposed national Queen Elizabeth II Memorial.  My proposal is relatively...

           It is the late Sixties, let us say 1968 as it is the year of this film's cinematic release.  It is a Saturday - likely the mo...

This post, both text and photos, was created was created just before the second lockdown.  The plan was create a single post on both the chu...

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.      Saturday afternoon, I'm on the sofa, and in search...

     Last Monday, on our return from Worcestershire, we stopped briefly in Weobley - a large, remarkable village rich in half-timbered build...

    Last week we watched 'Charlie Bubbles', a 1967 British film starring Albert Finney, Liza Minnelli, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakel...