I’m not being snotty; why, or how?

Paris-Roubaix and all those miles of bumpily cobbles 😱

My perineum is sore just thinking about it. Swoons.

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

Excellent! No one NEEDS more than one home, especially of a threshold value of $5million USD (approx. £3m GBP).

What Rubio says is perfectly true.

But it is entirely irrelevant to inflicting war upon Iran, including targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, threats of genocide, and doing all without the Constitutionally-required authority of US Congress.

The New Lot (1943) | Rare WWII British Army Training Film | Lost for 50 Years YouTube video by Militaria Collectors Network

@guywalters.bsky.social

An important WWII British film "lost for 50 years".

At under 1-hr, "The New Lot" could almost be a 'Mike Leigh' improve workshop for "The Way Ahead" —many of the same themes, same faces, same writer (Peter Ustinov) same director (Carol Reed).

youtu.be/5NscDZbHbzs?...

If evangelicals think Pope Leo is too”woke” just wait until
they hear about this fellow called Jesus.

I don’t need to know about your BigBen

#WelshGuards #GuardsArmouredDivision liberating Germany #OTD 1945.

As much as I lament the apparent passing of #GentlemansRelish, the Torygraph’s goto faux toff fogey commentator, Jacob Rees Mogg, is being performative even in this grave matter. #BathOlivers were fully discontinued in 2025 (sadly).

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/1654eb1...

Deannnnooooo 😉 H

Yes, as St. Augustine says in "City of God", "dictated by necessity in these ancient days". Such unions are a "secondary" prohibition, becoming immoral only when God commanded against it later in salvation history (Leviticus 18,20), as humanity grew and risks associated with inbreeding increased.

Likewise the Ark.

Technical myth in ancient literature, biblical and not, is a story conveying a truth, and is likely rooted in some kind of event.

One of my faves is Herodotus “father of history” who records someone swimming ten miles under water during the Persian Wars.

Dear Mrs Bowers,

Please learn about hermeneutics.

Post-Puritan-American-melting-pot Biblical literalism of the C19th/C20th is responsible for an awful lot.

Classical interpretation (e.g. Origen/Augustine) stresses allegorical/metaphorical meaning of myth, & views simple literalism as inadequate.

2/
If you wish to interpret Noah literally, don’t you think the hedonistic West would prefer the antediluvian society of sex n drugs n rock n roll?

So, God was incompetent for giving our first parents —the words Adam and Eve are not name, but ‘from the earth’ and ‘mother’— free will?

The Noah myth (myth in its technical sense) reflects a catastrophic event —see also Gilgamesh— but Noah, like Babel, is about the dangers which free will embraces

The Butt & Oyster was a regular haunt of my late parents (sailing) in the 1960s-'90s, including the tenure of legendary landlord Dick (I don't know his surname) with a wonderful walrus moustache.

And a popular prep school master lived in a houseboat moored outside —very Le Carré Jim Prideaux!

The Butt and Oyster at Pin Mill. Very close to Alma Cottage where the Walker Family (Swallows) stayed before 'We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea' and 'Secret Water'.

The #PaschalTriduum -the feasts of the Easter Festival begin this evening, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) #MassOfTheLordsSupper and the #WatchOfThePassion, for us #Gethsemane.

Our Paschal Triduum is led by +Luke, #BishopOfRichborough.

@thechurchofengland @thedioceseofely

British billionaire Chris Rokos to donate £190m to Cambridge University Hedge fund founder Chris Rokos said he wanted to

Yes, it is possible for wealthy people to think beyond the end of their nose.

British billionaire to donate £190m to Cambridge University.

Rokos lives in Britain and pays his UK Tax without trying to evade it.

There’s a lesson here about society and responsibility.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Evidence. [amazingly] Donald Trump tells the truth.

Extrapolation: enough chimps with enough typewriters and enough time might actually be able to produce the works of Shakespeare after all…

Pardon me, but it looks like viscera 😟

Update from the land of the free:

Instead of shoes?

It has a few necessary things trapped inside.

It’s #HolyWeek, therefore my computer has died.

It’s #HolyWeek, therefore my computer has died.

Trump says he is considering seizing Iran's Kharg Island, but deal could be made 'very quickly' The US president's comments come alongside briefings from US officials about the readiness of troops to carry out ground operations.

#Trump
#MilitaryStrategy
#Lesson101

Always give the enemy as much advance notice as possible of your intended next move.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

These two kittens are two young to separate from one another. Or in fact their mother. 8 weeks minimum.