There’s nothing like my annual alumnus magazine to make me feel a failure. This year, I read that one of my contemporaries was Rachel Weisz’s boyfriend (!!!); and that two other alumni are responsible for those pillars of cutting-edge literary…
Two recommendations:
Two recommendations:
I saw the new Bond movie at the weekend. Nothing like it to make me proud to be English. After all, it just couldn’t be done by, say, the Welsh. `The name’s ap-Llymrys Jones, Gwynfor ap-Llymrys Jones’ just doesn’t cut…
I saw the new Bond movie at the weekend. Nothing like it to make me proud to be English. After all, it just couldn’t be done by, say, the Welsh. `The name’s ap-Llymrys Jones, Gwynfor ap-Llymrys Jones’ just doesn’t cut…
For those interested, Ian Glover sent me the actual text about the Scottish minister who was so ungrateful: Letter addressed to Rev Robert [?], Kirkintilloch, by [Rev] Finlay Stewart November 9th 1813. (Letter addressed to members of Presbytery calling to…
For those interested, Ian Glover sent me the actual text about the Scottish minister who was so ungrateful: Letter addressed to Rev Robert [?], Kirkintilloch, by [Rev] Finlay Stewart November 9th 1813. (Letter addressed to members of Presbytery calling to…
Given the question on the blog, I’m reminded of an anecdote my good pal, Rev Ian Glover, told me recently. When doing archival work in Edinburgh, he came across one Scottish minister (whether 18th or 19th century, I cannot remember)…
Given the question on the blog, I’m reminded of an anecdote my good pal, Rev Ian Glover, told me recently. When doing archival work in Edinburgh, he came across one Scottish minister (whether 18th or 19th century, I cannot remember)…
Cards on the table — like Derek, I know Stephen Williams. He was my predecessor in the editorial chair at Themelios and, when I took over, memorably told me it was like `selling a second hand car to a friend’. …
