The Hearth of Mopsus

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

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Wells - Staffs & Salop

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While I don't want to try people's patience with all the holy wells I saw while away, there were some intriguing ones, so here are a...
Sunday, 18 October 2026

Autumn Museum Reports

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A mixed collection, my recent museum visits. The Ancient High House in Stafford does  have artefacts - and a range of mocked-up sets includi...
Friday, 16 October 2026

Mostly Off

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As is my custom once Harvest is out of the way, I've been on leave for a fortnight, a period which is drawing to an end. My sojourn actu...
Monday, 21 September 2026

Or Forever Hold Thy Peace

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Even in these straitened times I celebrate more funeral services than I attend, so going to one today was an infrequent event, especially wh...
Saturday, 19 September 2026

Humans and Other Entities

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In amidst all the worries about AI models destroying us in a couple of years, fears themselves situated in a maelstrom of existential threat...
Friday, 28 August 2026

Arundel Surprises

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It must have been forty years since I went to Arundel Castle. The town, a port once but whose economy is now based around antique shops, caf...
Monday, 24 August 2026

Fruits of the Spirit

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It was the morning of the Village Show and, despite the extraordinarily unfavourable growing conditions in recent months, some dogged local ...
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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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