Sunday, 7 June 2026

This Sunday

Today, my wife and daughter have embarked on a day-long coach trip to Holy Island. Having meditated, breakfasted and blogged, I will walk by Lancaster Canal to a Hospice cafe for lunch and will then return home, again to meditate, read, blog and eat. Tomorrow evening, Zen group. Tuesday, the monthly visit to (male) Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop.

Reading involves noticing the multiple parallels between Poul Anderson and Neil Gaiman. In Three Hearts And Three Lions, Alianora somewhere refers to Queen Mab who appears as a character in both authors' works.

OK. It is time for me to move.

Laterz.

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Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the Viking sack and destruction of the monastery on Lindisfarne in 793 has been considered the traditional date for the beginning of the Viking Age, as the wild men from the north came ravening forth to plunder, destroy, and kill. The British Isles and western Europe were ravaged as far south as Spain, with some Vikings attacking, I think, parts of N Africa.

One prayer said this: "Save us from the fury of the north men, O Lord."

The disintegration of the Carolingian Empire didn't help one bit!

Ad astra! Sean

7 June 2026 at 20:23

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