Some of you may have recognised my fair countenance on the blog of Fr Tim Finigan - this is just to say that I was there putting the flag up purely because I was in the vicinity. At any rate I ironed those chinos that very morning...
You know I was talking to the Queen this morning, who said she felt very nonchalant about the whole matter. We're on very familiar terms - at least I've been writing her speeches for some years now. You see I am just so very reverend and wise. I marvel that the Pope declined my invitation to come and have tea at my house, but then he has been rather sour with me ever since I sent him that letter some years ago urging him not to publish Summorum Pontificum; although I did also say that I felt for his shame, living amongst idiots. Don't we all!
Blogging has been slow of late for various reasons - disinclination mostly, and the Sitemeter stats show that most readers have gone off to better more interesting blogs. I am a little over half way through The Lord of the Rings now, a slow pace for me but it is an improvement from a few months ago.
Ah, methinks you do protest too much, dear Patricius. ;-p 'Wrong place at the wrong time'? Aye right. No, I know how persuasive Fr Tim can be. But I'm glad you at least iron your Chinos.
ReplyDeleteGive us some more Lord of the Rings posts; I do enjoy reading them.
Patricius,
ReplyDeleteI am astonished you would consort with the Queen. If your politics are even remotely like your theology and liturgical views I would have pegged you as an arch-legitimist and Jacobite. :-)
In ICXC
John
Mark, chinos crease very easily, and it doesn't help much when it is the custom in my parish fold them and tuck them into one's socks if one is required to serve Mass.
ReplyDeleteJohn ha ha! My political sympathies lean more and more towards pure monarchism. If the king is a despot, at least there's only one of him...hmmmm, how very different from my views about the Papacy though.
Patricius:
ReplyDeleteAs I know, as I do know. I've been lazy and instead of wearing black dress trousers, I've been wearing my brown chinos, but the colour differential between them and the Cassock is just too extreme. *sigh* I begin to feel like some bouffant thing wearing plus-fours. (Ha!)
Mark brown chinos are hideous in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteGentlemen,
ReplyDeleteIt is The Queen, never the Queen.
Says you, Patricius! :-P
ReplyDelete(Though brown may be a poor description of the actual colour.)
Great pic!!
ReplyDeleteRubricarius,
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected sir.
In ICXC
John
I am just starting Book 5. Am rereading for first time in over 30 years. Am struck by the strong moral Catholic current that runs thru it.
ReplyDeleteIroning's for Protestants.
ReplyDeleteJim, it's a marvellous book. I tend to read it at least twice a year though.
ReplyDeleteMoretben,
ReplyDelete'Ironing's for Protestants' ??
How does one go about ironing a Protestant? Sounds a bit extreme to me - are we witnessing a revival of the Spanish Inquisition? If so, I'm sure no-one was expecting it.
;-)