At Dedza Pottery (again)

8 January 2022

Hence up country (with the customary measure of diffidence) again.   It is necessary to set aside the usual standards by which one marks ‘the Days on the Year’. One recalls from Oxon. with fondness the beauty of the Mass of Christmas Day at the Oratory; and the time between Christmas Day and the Epiphany…

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Eighteen Years on the Inside

31 December 2021

The rains have failed. A burning sun has set over 2021 and the Kasungu – Lilongwe plain. The heat torturous.   Diversion must be sought where it may. I note this, by David Warren of Toronto, founding editor of The Idler, on the eighteenth anniversary of his reception into the Church. Mine is also eighteen…

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