On Wisdom
The Oxford Oratory has reprinted one of Jerome Bertram’s sermons to mark both his anniversary and St. Frideswide. It recalls the man rather well. Our Father Jerome died on 19 October, two years ago. Many of you found his sermons and talks both interesting and entertaining. His was indeed an inimitable style. Although our Weekly…
Read MoreTwo Oxford Men
Today for St. Frideswide, who is best marked, perhaps, with a Respite in memory of two Oxford men, neither of whom I knew well, but whose presence I observed around the city, and whose further acquaintance I will now no longer have. Jerome Bertram was a father of the Oxford Oratory. I noted him…
Read MoreOur Lady’s Birthday
Today, in honour of Our Lady, a tree currently in flower at the Four Seasons Nursery in Lilongwe: T. aurea, aka. Yellow Tabebuia vel Caribbean Trumpet Tree. It is, in fact, S. American, like J. mimosifolia, aka. the Jacaranda, whose dusky purple, for this brief season, transfigures Capital City. T. aurea J. mimosifolia
Read MoreGreek in the Tropics
We have just awarded the Kamuzu Academy Lower School Certificate in Greek for the second time. The survival of the Classics in the Malawi bush is due perhaps more to the life support of presidential mandate and institutional inertia than to any respect or understanding that they command among either colleagues or pupils. There…
Read MoreTwo Gardens
Hippo View Lodge, Liwonde, and Ku Chawe Inn, Zomba
Read MoreAt Dedza Pottery
It seems appropriate to write the first of these Respites at the conclusion of an Ulendo on which I have sought recreation amidst what is done well in Malawi. I would not be the first to comment that it is a particular quality of the country, different from others in this part of Africa, that…
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