"Our Lord Loves Bling..."

This post over at Credo made me chortle out loud. The question was posed, "What would Our Lord wear for choir dress?"

Very funny. And I heartily concur with Credo's summing up!

A Couple of Arrivistes...

...it would appear that we have a couple of new arrivals on the Catholic blogosphere.

Northern Cleric over at Ubi Petrus, Ibi Ecclesia gave me a very flattering mention on his blog. So far he has only two posts up, but we all have to start somewhere, and he'll be bitten by the blogging bug soon enough, I reckon...

(I've never yet met a priest who didn't have plenty to say for himself!!)

...and Moretben at The Undercroft is another promising blogger to watch, I think. I loved his post on Châteauneuf du Pape...

UPDATE: Northern Cleric has deleted the post referring to me in such nice glowing terms (the rat!) and I'm sure he didn't mean to... so it looks as if he got another sort of blogging bug...

FURTHER UPDATE: Yes, looks like I was right about the bug... and he's such a caring, pastoral type that he has promptly put up another nice comment!! Take note, Fr. Tim: how to keep your parishioners happy!!

Blogging Along on the Crest of a Wave...

Believe it or not, I have only just realised that GIF files can be uploaded to Blogger. I discovered this one over at Catholic Action UK and have shamelessly nicked it...

Exploring the Blogosphere

I've been having fun again on the blogosphere: there are some very interesting sites out there. Of course, I realise that most of them will already be known to my readers (sitemeter assures me that I do have more than one!) but at least I have enjoyed the discovery.

Hilary over at The Devout Life is a blogger I shall have to keep an eye on: I noticed that she has four separate blogs on the go (HOW??? I have problems maintaining just this one!!) and that she has a button which describes her as an "Evil Trad"... (something rather appeals to me about that moniker... )

...then there is the rather interesting Catholic Action UK...

I've added both of these to my blogroll now.

Culture of Death

I think the Culture of Death so prevalent in our country has upped the ante yet again. We now have scientists wanting to create embryos for stem cell research which will involve inserting human DNA into cows' eggs. There will be some cow DNA left behind, but this is, apparently, negligible...

Along the same lines, I read this really excellent post over at the Recusant Cricket Club. I hope we wake up soon!

Me and My Mantilla

I hate having my photo taken... I am tempted to refer to myself as the "Lesser-Spotted" Mulier Fortis!! However, the picture of a cat on my profile just didn't look right, especially as Jess isn't even my cat.

Fr Tim offered to take a photo of me, and on my pointing out that I didn't have a suitable brown paper bag to cover my face (a burkha would give the wrong impression), he told me that the mantilla would do...


















I do think he definitely picked the most flattering view: the back of my head. And in case you're wondering, I'm in front of the Lady Altar at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Blackfen.