It is one of the oldest jokes in the book, yet it seems to be apter with each passing year:
"Guy Fawkes was the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".
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Posted 6 hours 39 min ago
My summer visit to York saw me staying in the parish of St Paul’s, Holgate. Curiously, the modest hotel at which I lodged had once been the vicarage. The Church of England is a mixed bag, though St Paul’s looks pretty good judging by its website. Its building was not open to inspect, and it is only Victorian anyway. It claims:
Posted 1 day 5 hours ago
After Friday’s coffee morning, a great, full-sized rainbow was observed in the skies about Salem Chapel. On closer inspection, a second could be seen, above it, running parallel. It was rather beauitful, and made the thick cloud and rainy sky a fair price to pay for so cheering a sight.
Posted 2 days 5 hours ago
St Mary’s at Chirk in Clwyd, Wales, I was pleased to find open when I called in the autumn. An establishment of some vintage, I found it rather peculiar on three counts, the first being the number of monuments to the dead.
Posted 3 days 5 hours ago
Before Kirkland Hill on the drovers' road from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire sits the church of St Connel. Google Maps associates it with the Covenanters though I saw little to explain this when I called. There were plenty of gravestones and even a collection of medieval fragments, for these are thirteenth-century remains on an even older site (some of those broken stones date to the ninth century).
Posted 4 days 5 hours ago
"Teachers work so hard."
Or:
"Teachers have it so easy with all those holidays."
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