“Masclus to Cerialis his king, greeting. Please, my lord, give instructions as to what you want us to have done tomorrow. Are we to return with the standard to the shrine at the crossroads all together or every other one of us … most fortunate and be well-disposed towards me. Farewell. My fellow-soldiers have no…
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Travel: So Very Gently Chiselled of Gold – Salisbury Day 2
“In 1883, the London and South-Western Railway announced plans to run a line through the heart of the Stonehenge site. When people complained, a railway official countered that Stonehenge. was “entirely out of repair, and not the slightest use to anyone now.” Bill Bryson One of the pleasures of staying at the theological college is…
Life : My Internal Rings of Berhampore
From my vantage point I can see policemen forming up into lines. They are wearing double breasted trench coats, visored helmets that give them a look not unlike Star Wars Storm Troopers and in their hands, they grasp truncheons like they are holding sub machine guns. They are set against a backdrop of old villas,…
Life : The Tomb
I stay on the bus an extra stop as we crest the hill sailing past the cemetery. I walk back along Karori Road past a house that is built down the hillside. The top level is one room perched atop the house. An adult lifetime ago I “lost my virginity” in that room. Even at…
Life : Combe
Coomb | Combe | Comb A valley, often wooded and often with no river From the Middle English Coumbe and the Old English Cumb. Related to the Welsh Cym. I’m stood on the side of the road in the bright morning sun. It’s February in Exeter Devon and the weather is much warmer, dryer and…
Raise the Dawn 