Indeed, the bizarreness makes me wonder if somewhere the encounter now features on YouTube as part of a series?
Last week I was accosted while going about my business by a young lady tourist who was desirous of directions. It took me some time, due to the accent and rather limited command of English, to understand where she wanted to go, and she ( Read more... )

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Last batch - these are small random things that I tried to capture.

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James Fenton, Was Shakespeare, or was his father, a Catholic, or a crypto-Catholic?:
Were they connected to Jesuit missionaries operating undercover in Warwickshire? These questions are asked in an article in the TLS of March 16. The answer to the latter question appears to be a resounding raspberry, which is interesting, since the authors of the ( Read more... )