It’s probably an illusion that Hornchurch was named after these horns, but it seems there was a bull’s head and horns on an earlier church.
But the Resurrection Window appears to be post-medieval:
Note computer, Spitfire and car:
Details of how to ring and ringers’ jugs at The Bells of Hornchurch.
I was impressed that they were ringing this lunchtime, but was told that it is all about Waterloo, and too jingoistic for my informant.
Apparently it’s National Blood Week and the letters A, B and O are disappearing from London signs, which presumably will only make the problem worse.
I’m still trying to work out these two on the side of the former Foyles building:
The Y has been moved, but are there blood groups I haven’t heard of, is someone having fun or has Foyles been able to flog off specific letters?
Easter Sunday was a good day to watch the new cat at the Seven Stars in Carey Street taking a stroll, albeit rescued from a dog at the end:
He is not as magnificent as Tom Paine.
At Temple Station, the barriers carry an advert for You and Archbold, partners in crime:
The two big illegible ads in the background are for The White Book (as we know from elsewhere, anything else is a pale imitation).
I didn’t get one of these, in part because I was worried about what I might find inside it.
What would Jesus have said?
I will be getting back to legal translation matters – really! Meanwhile:
1. Postman’s leg £2.95:
Apparently these are also sold as Dinosaur Bones.
2. Burns Night tomorrow: Lidl has or had kilts on offer.
3. Between the Lines: podcasts on literary translation, including Joyce Crick on Freud and Kafka in English and Anthea Bell and Jo Catling on translating W.G. Sebald.
4. It seems holders of manorial rights in land will not be able to claim damages for fracking.
5. I suppose it’s not likely that, if Scotland were to be independent, Orkney and Shetland would have to be handed back under udal law? It does appear that a very few people, possibly not including royalty, are or were pursuing this line.
AN INDEPENDENT Scotland will have to hand back Shetland and Orkney according to Denmark’s British Ambassador.
In partnership with Norway’s King Harald V, the Danish regent Queen Margrethe II intends reviving the ancient rites of Udal Law which were ratified by the Scottish parliament in 1567.
Happy New Year to all readers and I wish you the infinite wealth which you may or may not get after seeing all seven noses in Soho on Peter Berthoud‘s tour – recommended. Do not fall for anyone offering you ‘six noses of Soho’ at a reduced rate. This is a pale copy and, what’s more, ineffective. The Peter Berthoud walk was not just about the noses and went all over Soho and beyond in two hours as the weather got drier and the skies gloomier.
We saw one of the altered traffic signs not yet spotted and reversed by Westminster Council:
I’d seen one in Brick Lane before. But I didn’t know they were a set and were the work of Clet Abraham, a French artist. There’s an interview with him in the Huffington Post.
The noses proper were the work of Rick Buckley, but because he didn’t out himself at first, stories grew up around them.