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Sarah Baker
Dec 8, 2024
Thoughtful, intelligent, calming, funny and charming
Nov 16, 2024
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Origins St Gennys Church in North Cornwall; Today’s two Saints; and a warm Hello 👋
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Apr 03, 2025 |
Dorset Smugglers; Naked Welsh Saints and the sound of the Atlantic Ocean. Welcome to Cornwall 🤗
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Mar 29, 2025 |
The Alchemy of Poetry; More on Roman Roads; and Bede conjures up devilish imaginings
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Mar 28, 2025 |
Evidence for Roman Roads into Cornwall; and Bede tells of testimony of a man who rose from death.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
Commemorating today’s Saints; Early English architecture and our Gentle Bede
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Mar 26, 2025 |
River sounds; Crying a river; Poorly Doggo and Marvellous Alfred.
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Mar 25, 2025 |
Come to Thomas Hardy’s land of birth, passing a Roman Road; and then let’s hear of a double murder
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Mar 24, 2025 |
Alfred the Great, master strategist, creates currency from oaths.
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Mar 23, 2025 |
A spring visit to a pretty Dorset church; and King Alfred burns the cakes.
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Mar 22, 2025 |
Live violin 🎻 magic from Dorset Fiddlers; and pondering that Wonder and Beauty often springs from cracks and imperfections.
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Mar 21, 2025 |
A Grandson on losing his Grandma; and a return home to routine and restful reality.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
The dreadfulness of crematoriums. Like celebrating Christmas in a dentist’s waiting room. What a forlorn end to a wonderful life. And so we read about Gothic architecture to clear the mind and cleanse the palette.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
Histories of Four Saints and Throwing Control to the Four Winds; the Serenity to accept the Things we Cannot Change is Hard to Harness
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Mar 18, 2025 |
We learn about popular Saint Patrick, for whom many Guinnesses will have been drunk today. Melancholy as a quiet, tidal emotion.
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Mar 17, 2025 |
A Happy Sunday with Family and Sunshine; Wise words from a Young Girl; and Gentle Bede
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Mar 16, 2025 |
A Few Quiet Readings.
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Mar 15, 2025 |
Ponderings on the some of the consequences of the Norman Conquest; and Bede tells of yet another miracle
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Mar 14, 2025 |
Churchill tells of early Celtic Christianity; and we progress with Bede as Doggo dreams fitfully ☺️
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Mar 13, 2025 |
Leaning into the wind, with a few new books at my elbow; and Bede’s Fifth Book begun on Farne Island.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
Winchester Cathedral offers balm to the soul after holding my mother’s hand for the last time.
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Mar 11, 2025 |
Glorious, Delicious Southwark; a Forlorn return to Chelsea; and we close Bede’s 4th Book 🤓
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Mar 10, 2025 |
The Making of the Thames and the Middlesex Saucer; Quiet Bede accompanied by the practising Choir of Sherborne Abbey
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Mar 09, 2025 |
Do you know your ‘Wics’? Gretel goes deep into Middlesex; Poor Bede can’t let Cuthbert go; but he’s not like Binker
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Mar 08, 2025 |
Grief is Tough; a Robin visits; the Irish Famine and the death of Cuthbert
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Mar 07, 2025 |
Filial bell-ringing; Queen Victoria rejects anti-semitism; a word on Diocletian; and Cuthbert enthrals his fellows.
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Mar 06, 2025 |
Calm readings with cat on lap, candles lit and tea by my side. In history we find comfort for it right-sizes the present times.
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Mar 05, 2025 |
More Adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon, in the Guild Chapel, the Swan Theatre, and with actor Enzo Cilenti in the Dirty Duck pub.
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Mar 04, 2025 |
A trip to Stratford-upon-Avon with Bede
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Mar 03, 2025 |
Taking the Somerset air and contemplating a forthcoming exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350; Roman roads and more chatterings from Bede
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Mar 02, 2025 |
A second time in two weeks to lie next to a human in love and protection.
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Mar 01, 2025 |
A Wessex Wander and Progress with Churchill and Bede’s histories. Aching for my mother. 😔
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Feb 28, 2025 |
Darkness and Light after Death; and Tom Holland brings some Comfort 🌷
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Feb 27, 2025 |
Oh Let us have Valiant Hearts; Gratitude for Kindness; and the Legacy of Hilde
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Feb 26, 2025 |
The Church of Lady St Mary, Wareham; and Hilde of Whitby.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
Ponderings on Grief, a little Mozart, and Venerable Bede tells of a Veritable Samson
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Feb 24, 2025 |
Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Sea-Swimming and Gentle Bede
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Feb 23, 2025 |
Exploring Wareham; the Romans look back to the Danube; and we prepare for Bede’s hymn to the Virgin Queen 😬🫖
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Feb 22, 2025 |
A trip to Wareham to visit the Saxon church of St Martin; and Bede talks of bones, virgins and eels 🤓
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Feb 21, 2025 |
Not Waving but Drowning; the Birds bring Joy; as do Books 📚
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Feb 20, 2025 |
Boy, this is tough! Grief overwhelms; Suetonius finally overwhelms the Britons; and monks flock to hear chanting superstar John
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Feb 19, 2025 |
A Candle lit in the Abbey; Early Roof Construction in Churches; and Dark Deals regarding the Isle of Wight are recounted by Bede
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Feb 18, 2025 |
The Beginning of The Rest of My Life; Let’s Read about Chelsea
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Feb 17, 2025 |
A Cold Day of Calm after the Storm;
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Feb 17, 2025 |
Home for Respite after a terrible morning; Churchill tells us of Boudicca
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Feb 16, 2025 |
Warrior Mother; Carlyle’s Truth-Forged approach to writing about the French Revolution 🇫🇷; and Venerable, gentle Bede.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
By my bed stay awhile, and read of Thomas Carlyle
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Feb 14, 2025 |
Episode 131, February 13th 🫖
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Feb 13, 2025 |
Not ready! A foolish lament. Pubs as cosy cocoons; and Bede tries to get heard over the London punters. Wednesday oft is weaved of woe. 🫖
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Feb 12, 2025 |
One Day at a Time, and Finding Peace within. With the help of gentle readings.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
Good evening let’s ponder about London, hospitals and losing track in Bede’s narrative
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Feb 10, 2025 |
A Dash from Dorset to London
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Feb 10, 2025 |
Hallelujah, it’s time for Saturday histories.
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Feb 08, 2025 |
Mr Katt battles for the lap as he’s told stories of Caesar and long-dead Nuns
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Feb 07, 2025 |
February is Spring's Promise; A visit to a hidden Dorset hamlet ; and Caesar is surprised by the turning tides
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Feb 06, 2025 |
A peek into Sherborne Abbey; Norman Churches; and the Iron Age
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Feb 05, 2025 |
A Windy Bridge-Crossing and Historical Musings
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Feb 04, 2025 |
High hopes and Gratitude are our Sword and Shield; Julius Caesar sniffs the English shores; and Bede records some sensible Synodical Decisions
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Feb 03, 2025 |
Another visit to Mr Robin and the Church at Corton Denham; we finish Winston Churchill’s marvellous Preface to his History
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Feb 02, 2025 |
Sadness; Sherborne’s Conduit; and Remembering Chad
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Feb 01, 2025 |
Les oiseaux, Churchill’s History and Chad’s last hours; our first garden pot of tea 🫖
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Jan 31, 2025 |
Sherborne Bells strike Twelve; Spring Birds Gladden the Heart; Churchill's Preface to his History; and Bede
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Jan 30, 2025 |
Hallelujah for Handel; London Dining in 1915 and Catholicism blooms in England
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Jan 29, 2025 |
Bell-ringing, AA Milne poetry and Book Four begun
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Jan 28, 2025 |
The streets of London; listening in to Choir Practice (and weeping); A message of love to dear America 🇺🇸 and we close Book Three with Bede
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Jan 27, 2025 |
Epiphany Service at Chelsea Old Church, Finding Peace in beautiful old Buildings, and Bede
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Jan 26, 2025 |
A London Mooch About with Bede in my Back-Pocket
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Jan 25, 2025 |
Rural society in the 1840s; the Ubiquity of Social Division; and our dear Bede
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Jan 24, 2025 |
Seagulls swirl over Sherborne Abbey; their Freedom contrasting with the poor condemned of Newgate Gaol. Charles Dickens at his descriptive best.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
A Visit, by Charles Dickens, to Newgate Gaol; and Bede tells of the Goodness of the Northumbrian Clergy
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Jan 22, 2025 |
A Gentle Zooming in on Thomas Hardy’s Under The Greenwood Tree
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Jan 22, 2025 |
Hope is the Thing with Feathers; a Walk in the Meadow; and Easter is settled
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Jan 21, 2025 |
An introduction to Thomas Hardy from 1940 and more Easter arguments
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Jan 20, 2025 |
Sunday is Music Day 😀; Saxon Costume; The Arguments about Easter rumble on
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Jan 19, 2025 |
Housewives’ tips from the Abbey bench; Saxon clothing; and Bede frets again about Easter
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Jan 18, 2025 |
Home Sweet Home with special guest Mr Katt as we read about the American Civil War before our friend Bede
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Jan 17, 2025 |
Podcasting from a Battersea Care Home, Chelsea History, a Choir Practice and a Saxon Princess offered to God
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Jan 16, 2025 |
Tony Slattery’s best friend Erica talks to the podcast of her sadness
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Jan 15, 2025 |
An explanation for Episode 100 and a Bede tells of a boy’s survival
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Jan 15, 2025 |
Noisy bird-fellows by the Thames; Friendship; Tea and Gentle Bede
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Jan 14, 2025 |
A Full Moon in Vibrant London; in the company of our Venerable friend
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Jan 13, 2025 |
Sunday remembrances of Flodden Field and the power of Iona
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Jan 12, 2025 |
Hello let’s look at January’s sparkling 🌔 and wonder about life 🤗
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Jan 11, 2025 |
Friday poems and readings: a gentle end to the week.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
Welcome to Thursday night’s gentle pondering and readings
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Jan 09, 2025 |
Love, not embarrassment, for one’s roots; Dick Dewy and Fancy Day get ready for their pretty marriage; and more wisdom from Ireland
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Jan 08, 2025 |
A Joyful Tuesday of literature, children, birds and Bede
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Jan 07, 2025 |
An Owl, Family Pressures and The Candle of the North 🕯️
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Jan 06, 2025 |
The Three Kings Carol live from Sherborne Abbey and Aidan Protects Bamburgh from the Flames 🔥
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Jan 05, 2025 |
The Still Small Voice of Wisdom; the Shape of Trees and Aidan’s Miracles
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Jan 04, 2025 |
Frosty Friday the third; time to right-size and humble Aidan
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Jan 03, 2025 |
A Winter’s Visit to a Secret Church, Self-Pity and Oswiu
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Jan 02, 2025 |
A quiet start to 2025 with Pepys and Bede
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Jan 01, 2025 |
A Happy New Year from Baedeker and Bede
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Dec 31, 2024 |
A night in Oxford and a visit to the Ashmolean Museum
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Dec 30, 2024 |
Syrian monasticism, Somerset Ham Stone and Miracles after the death of Oswald
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Dec 29, 2024 |
Early Holy Land Monasticism; Charles II is visited by Russians and Oswald is killed in Battle
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Dec 28, 2024 |
Twixt Yule and Year End 🕯️😊
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Dec 27, 2024 |
Double Bede for Boxing Day
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Dec 26, 2024 |
Christmas Day ⭐️
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Dec 25, 2024 |
Music, Carols and Early Irish Christians ⭐️
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Dec 24, 2024 |
Canadian wolves and bears; and St Columba is given Iona
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Dec 23, 2024 |
Under the Greenwood Tree and the history of Oswald
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Dec 22, 2024 |
The Sun Stands Still, and the wind curls round Gretel in Castleton
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Dec 21, 2024 |
A Christmas Carol and King Oswald
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Dec 20, 2024 |
A Thursday evening Robin and Bede takes us to Book Three
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Dec 19, 2024 |
Achingly beautiful words by Walter Scott from 1806
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Dec 18, 2024 |
Tuesday gratitude and the death of poor Edwin
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Dec 17, 2024 |
Monday magic Moon and a reading by the Abbey
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Dec 16, 2024 |
Completing Charles II Coronation Day and Bede
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Dec 15, 2024 |
Organ Music, Tears, A Coronation and a Clever Pope
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Dec 14, 2024 |
We march onwards with Bede
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Dec 13, 2024 |
A day of bustle in festive Londres with Fabritius, the Christmas Tree and David Tennant
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Dec 12, 2024 |
Rowdy London, Serene Leanda de Lisle and a 12th Century Church
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Dec 11, 2024 |
Gretel takes you to a river and inside an Abbey for some quiet ponderings. 🎄😀
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Dec 10, 2024 |
Old and New Sherborne Castles
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Dec 09, 2024 |
Thomas Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree on Christmas morning; and King Edwin receives a holy visitor.
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Dec 08, 2024 |
Sherborne, Betjeman and Bede. Welcome!
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Dec 07, 2024 |
A Graveyard, an Apology, Pepys and a Wily Pope
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Dec 06, 2024 |
Fifth day in December, by a Dorset river and listening to the extraordinary words of Pope Boniface to a long-dead British king ✨
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Dec 05, 2024 |
Thomas Hardy and Pepys join Bede for todays episode with peaceful Gretel
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Dec 04, 2024 |
Come inside an old Bishops Caundle Church 🤓
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Dec 03, 2024 |
Fear, Families from the Past, Abbey Bells and a Pallium given
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Dec 02, 2024 |
Winter and Advent Cometh 😊🔔
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Dec 01, 2024 |
Must be Santa, Advent Eve, Cnut and Mellitus. 🔔
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Nov 30, 2024 |
The Darkling Thrush, the Nightingale and the death of Aethelberht
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Nov 29, 2024 |
Thursday shenanigans with Gretel 🥳
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Nov 28, 2024 |
Gentle midweek pondering by river and readings in the darkening garden.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
Hurrah for Home! And the return of our Venerable Bede.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
Monday dash to London, leaving Bede in Dorset. Germany’s history to the rescue 🇩🇪
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Nov 25, 2024 |
Thomas Hardy, John Clare and a stormy Sunday; while Augustine bullies the Britons
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Nov 24, 2024 |
A windy walk to Sherborne Abbey, a look inside, and a famous passage from Bede’s history.
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Nov 23, 2024 |
Pope Gregory dies and we look back on his life.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
Thomas of Canterbury on a snowy Thursday, and a new book in Bede’s histories
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Nov 21, 2024 |
Having courage of mind, English hedges, and our Venerable companion closes Book 1.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
Dissonance, the marvellous Weekend Book and Pope Gregory charms King Aethelberht 🌳
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Nov 19, 2024 |
The greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason
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Nov 18, 2024 |
Sunday ponderings about Hampstead Heath, Byron and Pope Gregory's pragmatic view on pagan shrines
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Nov 17, 2024 |
A Bleak Saturday dash to London
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Nov 16, 2024 |
Country soundscapes, church crawling and Bede
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Nov 15, 2024 |
Saxon Churches and Bede on a Thursday evening
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Nov 14, 2024 |
Malmesbury ahoy! And Bede discusses the sin of night-time ‘illusions’.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
Tuesday with Dunstan, Aldhelm and Bede
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Nov 12, 2024 |
St Augustine asks his boss awkward questions about women, sex and menstruation
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Nov 11, 2024 |
Remembrance; Bedlam Hospital and Bede.
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Nov 10, 2024 |
Shelley, Sherborne, Scriptoriums and St Augustine 🍂
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Nov 09, 2024 |
Overcoming dread, old Wessex and St Augustine give us a gentle time to pause
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Nov 08, 2024 |
Gretel takes you inside a very old church in the Somerset Hills before our progress with St Augustine
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Nov 07, 2024 |
Join me for a gentle twenty minutes of historical readings and a few ponderings.
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Nov 06, 2024 |
A wearisome day, put to bed with our usual peaceful readings.
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Nov 05, 2024 |
Cosy candle-lit readings and ponderings on a Monday afternoon 🤓
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Nov 04, 2024 |
A drizzle, damp Sunday, with seagulls, history books and the wind for company
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Nov 03, 2024 |
London churches and Bede
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Nov 02, 2024 |
A new month of life and loss with Gretel and the ecclesiastical history of England with Bede 🤓
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Nov 01, 2024 |
Halloween Thursday with Gretel and Bede. Families can be tricky
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Oct 31, 2024 |
Please do join me as we continue with Bede’s progress 🤓
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Oct 30, 2024 |
A quiet Tuesday in the new Anglo-Saxon Englannd
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Oct 29, 2024 |
Quiet Monday at Rotten Row with our Venerable friend
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Sunday with Mr Katt, Hyde Park and marauding Saxons 🤓
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Oct 27, 2024 |
Gretel makes a mistake while the birds chirrup merrily and Bede tells of incoming Anglo-Saxons
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Oct 26, 2024 |
Bede takes centre stage as we return to England 🌅
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Oct 25, 2024 |
Thursday in Paris. A balmy day at the Louvre 🇫🇷
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Oct 24, 2024 |
Bonjour! C’est Mercredi. Holiday ponderings and chaotic times told by Monsieur Vénérable 🤓🇫🇷
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Oct 23, 2024 |
Bonsoir mes amis. 🌞 Paris, the National Anthem and Monsieur Bede
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Oct 22, 2024 |
Monday good cheer and Bede
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Oct 21, 2024 |
Welcome to Sunday rain, The Cheshire Cheese and Bede
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Oct 20, 2024 |
A jittery Saturday from Bede to Tyburn Gallows
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Oct 19, 2024 |
An eleventh day of short musings with Gretel, Bede and a bit of Baedeker’s Primrose Hill.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Shine on Harvest Moon with autumn 🍂 sunshine, Gretel and Bede
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Oct 17, 2024 |
Please join me on day nine for nine quiet minutes. 🌳
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Oct 16, 2024 |
Eleanor Farjeon and Bede share a platform on this eighth day of podpondering with Gretel 🙋♀️🌳
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Oct 15, 2024 |
A Monday muse with Gretel, the dog and Bede. Come join us. 🤓
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Oct 14, 2024 |
A potter with Bede around Corton Denham
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Oct 13, 2024 |
A candlelight muse with Bede on a fifth day.
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Oct 12, 2024 |
Gretel goes forth with Bede on day four. Wishing everyone a restful Friday evening.
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Oct 11, 2024 |
The Birds and the Bede. Come join me for day three, walking in the Dorset woods.
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Oct 10, 2024 |
Grief and Bede. Come join me in the library for day two.
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Oct 09, 2024 |
Gretel, Grief and Bede. Let's kick things off..
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Oct 08, 2024 |