(0900) Sunny day in an autumny way. (0900)
10. Combine this item with that at OoL today
… and I’m thinking you get the drift.
9. Bondi … an ultimately disappointing person
… falling short precisely at junctures where she should not … and in nasty, disparaging ways, e.g. Bindergate.
8. Sunday thought
7. The gorgeousness of plain walls
This is not for all … it’s for those for whom strongly defined patterns of sun and shadow change inexorably through the day (if we’re lucky enough to have sun). It also does not mean huge swathes of white wall … it means highly irregular furniture, horizontally and vertically, with drapes, plus irregular ceiling beams, plus windows facing in three directions, such that each room comes into its own at some point.
The bedroom-gym gets it first … sudden shafts of overwhelming sun cast jagged shadows and lesser shadows, while lattice windows cast form and order … it really is quite spectacular. So I migrate room to room through the day, according to nature’s cycle.
6. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-indians-are-coming.html
7. At the moment I have to draw the curtains against the sudden shafts of overwhelming sun – can’t see my laptop screen. It’s still warming the room though, which is very pleasant.
8. Sunday thought – mine is how did our clergy evolve into a bunch of tone-deaf self haters? Read the papers today and you’ll see them whining about folk ‘co-opting and corrupting’ the cross at the Unite the Kingdom march. They should learn from history that when it is threatened Christianity can be very robust in response.
Me I prefer the pre-Norman Church, which was seen as being too independent and out of step with the Church in the rest of Europe – one of the main reasons why the Pope gave his support to the invasion of England in AD1066: the Bishop of Rome financed the mercenaries that the Duke of Normandy deployed against the English army on Senlac Ridge (Battle of Hastings).
Not far from where I live is arguably the oldest church in Dorset, St. Martin’s in Wareham. Lovely it is too, and Saxon 🙂
https://s3.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/lbimg/101/153/149/101153149-122451-800.jpg