Excellent !

Tx. We are off to Strasbourg in the coming months. I shall be tapping you up for any useful recommendations. I'll email at some point.

I wish that I could find the Open University programme that featured a Strasbourg merchant's house. Must be c1979. A vivid televisual memory.

That looks to me, like the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Turners.

I picked this up last evening. A purchase from FB Marketplace. *Not* stolen goods !

Weighs a ton; brass castors on the front legs.

From Guildhall in the City of London. I wonder what civic bums have graced this chair.

I *think* that TC was associated with the Musicians' livery company, in some way. The Company celebrated him in a big way some years ago. They struck a commemorative medal to that effect, I recall.

Am at a funeral today at St Giles Cripplegate.

Thanks to @stgilescg.bsky.social for the photo.

I haven't owned a car for c20 years. My fear of buying one (apart from the cost) will be that it will sit outside our house for days on end; I will constantly be contending with a flat battery.

I'm using my London OAP 'bus pass quite a bit these days :)

Our new Rector will be living in... the Rectory, which used to be a flat off of Gresham Street in the heart of the City of London.

The Diocese sold the gaff; putting our then Rector into a house in the East End. The Diocese then came up with the flat in the tower of St Dunstan in the East. See pic:

a woman is covering her mouth with a brown paper bag and the word trendisst is visible in the corner Alt: a woman is covering her mouth with a brown paper bag and the word trendisst is visible in the corner

Phew you're back!

We thought we'd broken Bluesky!

A huge privilege and joy (and in some ways a relief) to be present last evening at the Installation etc, of our new Rector.

A tremendous, heart-lifting Service. With thanks to all who made it so.

A white garment with some kind of food stain. Humiliating.

A pair of dirty hands rest on a car engine. Rough, tough, cool.

Here is an easy solution:

Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves.

Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled.

Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

At 6:00pm today, our new Rector at St Margaret Lothbury, in the heart of the City of London, will be Inducted and Installed.

We welcome Rev Tosin to his new role.

A Reception follows at Armourers' Hall.

Today: chest x-ray and ankle x-ray (after going flying on the tube train five weeks ago - still swollen).

God bless the NHS and all who work in that crazy machine.

The Prince of Wales in Cleaver Square used to be a lovely Pub.

Could have bought a whole one of those Georgian town houses for the proverbial song in the 1970s.

A mate bought a new-build flat in Dryden Court, Renfrew Rd c1981. We all thought that he was totally mad. #LastLaugh

Northern measure ;)

I'm a Londoner. I like my ale to be without Co2 and to the top of the glass or line, if there is one. Please.

Local custom.

'Albert Bridge at Night' by Rod Pearce
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This evening, I will be at my local, The Builders' Arms in New Barnet, for quite possibly that last time. Unless GK put a locum manager in, that's it - end of.

There is a spoons *immediately* adjacent and a faux Irish pub along the way with a TV screen on every wall, including the khazi. Nightmare.

Is this part of some sort of 'cleansing' of local, home-grown involvement, to be replaced by large-scale commercial concerns. See Hampstead Heath cafes etc.

There is one in the area of Sussex Gardens W2 o/s a block of private flats.

Liturgical percussion !

Great pics, Tracey.

I'm at Parish Clerks' Easter Court today - Evensong at St Margaret Lothbury and Dinner in Armourers.

Has this happened before ? May your week get better.

@rogerprotz.bsky.social Hi Roger. Sad news: The Builders' Arms, New Barnet (my Local...) is closing down. The leaseholders have had enough. Massive construction work, nearby has badly impacted footfall. A proper back-street Pub - is actually two cottages knocked into one. Not sure what GK will do.

When I happened to bump into the legend that is Rick Beato three years ago. Rick had been in London to record his Abbey Road Studio feature (it's all on YouTube).

Similar weather to today :)

William Gladstone, without his hand painted red, as it has been for much of my memory.

#IYKYK

So pleased to see that it has returned to a Saturday, as per tradition. I was never comfortable with it being on a Sunday. My inner Puritan, no doubt.

BTW had lunch last week with our mutual friend :)

He did an amazing work as Vicar of Kidderminster. Created small groups which studied and prayed in parishioners houses. Way ahead of the evangelical curve. The parish church at Kidderminster is still a renowned centre of low church anglicanism. I also like him :)