The Hearth of Mopsus

"Gothic Isn't Just the Spiky Bits on Churches"

Friday, 1 August 2025

Of Course I Didn't Say Anything

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... at the meeting this week when a clerical colleague due to leave his role the day after described the frustrations of his prospective ret...
Monday, 28 July 2025

The Spiritual Bounds of Satire

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Lately, Death stalks the halls of Euterpe: Ozzy Osbourne, Cleo Laine, Connie Francis, and now Tom Lehrer. I was introduced to the oeuvre of ...
Saturday, 26 July 2025

Farewell RRM

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The River & Rowing Museum at Henley opened the year after I arrived at Wycombe Museum. We were local authority, they were independent, b...
Thursday, 24 July 2025

St Catherine in Henley

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I'll write more about aspects of my visits today, but just for now here are the representations of St Catherine I found in Henley-on-Tha...
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Evensong At Binsey

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My week off has coincided so far with an attack of sciatica which hopefully won't stop me doing too many of the things I've planned....
Friday, 4 July 2025

V&A East Storehouse

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Alerted by a friend, I found my way yesterday to the new V&A Museum Storehouse halfway between Hackney Wick and Stratford, a slightly ot...
Wednesday, 2 July 2025

For the Record, from Gozo

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My friends Lady Wildwood and Captain Jackson were in Malta the other week and visited the Cathedral Museum on Gozo. As well as a mosaic skul...
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I realised I actually enjoyed reading my friends' blogs, and so have made my own, with an oblique nod to 4th-century theologian Theodore of Mopsuestia. Christian and Gothic matters will probably predominate. Names are changed to protect the furtive.
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