.... I know I've been rather lax (AGAIN...) about posting... but is anyone except Stephen Hall actually receiving this blog?? I need to know, because "Tell Me Your Name" is in discussions about cover art! Love from the PPI Blogger...
There are various reasons for taking an interest in the Olympics, and the main one is if it gives you pleasure. But there are perhaps a few reasons for not caring. Before Rio, prolific blogger Ian Paul posted this, https://www.psephizo.com/life-ministry/why-i-wont-be-watching-the-olympics/pointing out the huge environmental and financial...
I recently rewatched the first episode of the excellent BBC TV series “Sherlock” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, written by Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss. It is called “A Study in Pink” and is inspired by Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet,” minus the...
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned my fascination with football? No, of course I haven’t, because it doesn’t exist. I don’t think I have ever watched an entire football match in my life; I watched half of one my son was playing in. I’ve drawn...
We Christians occasionally wonder how best to welcome visitors, in an age when many adults almost never enter a church. The weirdness of the experience for the newcomer is sometimes compared with that of a respectable middle-class person entering a betting shop for the first...
I see that my last three posts have all been about books, so this one had better not be. I did speculate about writing “People I’m Hoping Will Die Soonish,” but well, it might be in bad taste. This thought was inspired by two people. One was...
“Seven days to bawl and weep; Seven weeks you’ll sorrow keep Pray for their soul for half a year; but when a twelvemonth’s passed – Lift a cup and shed one tear.” (Fallian rhyme) Some time ago, I posted https://www.penelopewallace.com/christmas-in-ragaris/about Christmas in the different parts of Ragaris. Book four...
Happy New Year! So… I promised a blog post on Charlotte M Yonge (1823 – 1901) in the year of her bicentenary, and I’ve missed the deadline by three days. Alas. Regular readers of this blog may recall that she was an extremely prolific Victorian novelist, most...
At this time when the world seems to be in an even more deplorable state than usual, I will use my space to be grumpy about modern literature. I’ve been reading "Stone Blind", by Natalie Haynes, a retelling of the Greek legend of Medusa, the Gorgon...
I have recently attended safeguarding training, run by the Church of England, and it included homework before, between sessions and afterwards. So I have as required watched the harrowing 2-part documentary “Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret," dealing with the serial abuser Peter Ball, former Bishop...