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Good afternoon and thank you for taking the time to join me for today’s episode where we end with some Handel to celebrate the word ‘Oratorio’ and its saintly origins.
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…. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 🕯️🤓🥳
Hello! We’re having two episodes today, to catch up with our Saints and to fit in this evening our start on the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, which will run alongside Pepys. Nothing’s too tricky for we band of merry, curious folk 🤓
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Good afternoon and welcome to today’s episode where we visit on foot a tiny chancel that once had a nave; built in the Tudor times just before the Reformation with a still visible coat of arms of Henry VIII above the East Window. I find a dusty old love poem of sorts, an ancient kneeler, and delight in the swooping swallows that gather about me.
Are you well? Are you content? Do rest in the safety and peace of my podcast which has now had nearly 20,000 downloads which is amazing. I don’t suppose I can continue forever, but I certainly will until 17th February next year, the anniversary of my mother’s death.
Thank you for your support and companionship. Do let me know if you have any ideas for the podcast: who to interview; places to go; poems to read; dedications to make. I’m just trying to create a warm and gentle place for the curious-minded, who want soothing companionship that involves learning new things and exploring new places.
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Hello and a very good afternoon. I hope you are well. Thank you so much to my seven kind subscribers who help pay for my tea and cake as I zoom about the country. Next week I’m looking forward to taking you back to St Gennys in north Cornwall when I will be digging deeper into the relationship between Cornish, Irish, Welsh and Breton saints. It’s a jigsaw puzzle in the making.
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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me. How are you and how is your Sunday?
Today I read an Extract from the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1985 - The Fire of 1437 and the Rebuilding of Sherborne Abbey, JHP Gibb.
Associated diagrams I’ve uploaded to X and BlueSky. I need a website! Can anyone make one for me? 🤷♀️
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Good evening and thank you so much for joining me. I’m a little under par this evening and low after receiving a low Apple Podcasts rating. If you enjoy what I do even a little I would be so very grateful if you would give me a nice rating. There are lots of places you can go to it: Podcast, Apple, Buzzsprout, Podchaser, GoodPods, Acast, Spotify, so many more. Also I really would like to know more about you. I have a lovely handful of listeners who I engage with, but many others I know nothing about. So do say hello. Feel free to send an email to [email protected]. I know I have regular listeners from South Africa 🇿🇦, Germany 🇩🇪, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Australia 🇦🇺, Slovakia 🇸🇰, The Russian Federation 🇷🇺, Canada 🇨🇦, France 🇫🇷, Czechia 🇨🇿 and New Zealand 🇳🇿. So please say hello and say what you want more of and what you want less of.
Thank you and very best wishes. Are we all watching The Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow? 🙋♀️
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Photo from E Webb ‘Literary London’ of 17th century Fleet Street. The gable-ended building is the Devil Tavern, frequented by Pepys and destroyed in 1787.
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The obsessing over signage by all people and institutions in May of 1660 is so fascinating and so relatable and explains why so many English pubs are the King’s Arms. What quicker, surer way to reassure people of your loyalty to the new King? Signs and symbols matter because we use them to be noticed by others who we know will know what we meant by them. They are equivalent to the nod of the head from one local to another as he enters the pub. Bonne nuit et grands mercis 🕯️
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