Well! Here we are at the start of yet another new month! Isn’t this year galloping on? Mind you, I shall be glad to see some warmer weather.Thank goodness for central heating – but how did our ancestors get on? I can remember the days before central heating, sitting in front of the fire - roasting at the front and icicles at the back!
There are some missing bits and pieces that Peregrine is looking for in the St Just Gravestones. Are you able to help at all?
Do you remember this at all?![]()
When I was a child, my Dad used to draw this at the slightest provocation – with various comments attached. Usually along the lines of Wot, no football?This character was the creation of George Edward Chatterton, who adopted the nickname of Mr Chad. The cartoon became popular in the second world war and usually appeared with a comment about the particular shortage of the day: Wot, no butter? Wot, no sugar? Etc.
And there you were, thinking that emoticons such as this
were a new invention!
However, today is St Chad’s day – not this little chap with the bald head, peering over a wall, but the real one who died back in 672. St Chad was Abbot of several monasteries and also became the Bishop of the Northumbrians, his life being greatly documented in the writings of the Venerable Bede. He became the patron saint of medicinal wells and many people were cured at Chad’s wells, the name living on today in places like Chadwell Heath in London. If you would like to find out about the feast days of other saints, then this book (CSB-55) would be the answer.
See you next week!
Wot, no ...?
Blog entry posted in 'Wot, no ...?', Mar 2, 2015.
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