To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!

Bishop Hill — said to be America’s first planned community, in the modern sense — was founded in 1846 when nearly 2,000 farmers and laborers sold their homes in central Sweden, pooled their resources and left for an uncertain future on the Illinois Erik Jansson, an itinerant flour-monger who regarded himself as chosen by God to convert the world.

Judging by the new voice over the PA, we've had a crew change in Plymouth - the warning about masks and the apology for lack of catering is made in a chirpy Cockney twang rather than a West Country burr.

Father Dolan came in today and pandied me because I was not writing my theme.