We last heard of this last summer, when some piece from the shipwreck were being moved to the facility at Portsmouth to be restored. Now we seem to be getting brief notices that the restoration process has actually begun. Charles Barker (of the Mary Rose Centre) dixit: It has an elm keel, an oak frame [...]
Archive for January 20, 2009
For those of you who have been wondering — as I have — why we haven’t heard from our favourite Carmelite lately, the word has hit assorted lists that Father Reginald Foster has been having major health problems since suffering a fall last summer. This past weekend, apparently, he suffered a seizure of some sort [...]
It’s been one of those days followed by one of those evenings (a power failure seems to have done something so my computer alone of all the wireless devices in our house won’t connect) so I’ll start with one that’s been also bugging me all day since I read it this a.m.. A piece in [...]
