Apologies for the lack of posts on here recently. I’m just back from a very lazy holiday in the Algarve, and this photo pretty much sums up what I did there:

Although we did wait briefly for the eschaton while eating some fabulous chicken piri piri:

I intend to post a couple of holiday book reviews, but I fear that in actuality the silence may continue. My parents and brother arrive from the States later this week, and from then on, aside from a (hopefully) peaceful few days with the Franciscans at Alnmouth, it’s pretty well non-stop until my ordination to the priesthood on the 17th August and first mass on the 18th.

Here’s some lavender to bring calm in the midst of the chaos to come: