I only know a very little about him - what I was told today and nothing more. Yet I am so sure that it was St. Hugh who Elizabeth Goudge had in mind when she wrote this:

"Bishops and Priors came and went and some were saints and some where not, and some were beloved in their day and some were hated, but none was remembered excepting only Prior ( Read more... )

Ite fell about the Martinmas time,

And a gay time it was then,

When our goodwife got puddings to make,

And she’s boil’d them in the pan.

The wind sae cauld blew south and north,

And blew into the floor;

Quoth our Goodman to our goodwife,

“Gae out and bar the door.” -

“My hand is in my hussyfskap.

Goodman, as ye may see,

An’ it shou’dna be barr’d this ( Read more... )

 I would draw this, if I were any good at drawing cartoons. Explainations are no doubt needed...this was Dad and I's dinner conversation as we ate toasted fruit loaf. Cicero might have featured early on in the conversation, but Sir Thomas More kind of stole it. And it is slightly snarky about Windows.

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Horace Slughorn: [talking to Harry about his fish] It was a student who gave me Francis. One day I came down to my office, and there was a bowl with only a few inches of clear water in it. And there was a flower petal floating on the water. Before my eyes it started to sink, and just before it hit the bottom, it transformed into a wee fish. It was ( Read more... )

Please get over yourselves and the current media hysteria circus livejournal, I'd expected better of you.