Six Sentence Sunday: The Price

Six Sentence Sunday has rolled around again: if all has gone well, I am in Dundee. After the long day of travel, I suspect I may still be in bed. Let’s hope! In the midst of packing and tying up loose ends, I was also writing (well, when am I not?). One of the things…

Caravaggios, Artichokes and Agnes’ Skull

First off I have to say this is Alessandra’s photo. I tried to get the pictures off the camera and onto my travel computer only to find that it overloaded the memory and now I can’t upload them to the web. Argh. So kind thanks to Alessandra and she’s started writing a blog, so you…

Saint Margaret

From the Cloisters, statue of Saint Margaret of Antioch: Like most of the early Christian virgin martyrs, she was secretly faithful and it was only when a Roman bigwig wanted to marry her that she ran into trouble because she refused him, and in public, too. Roman bigwigs hate that. She was tormented by a…