A glimpse at my usual butcher shop. I stopped in for some chicken for Sunday roasting with vegetables. Campo de Fiori.
And at the corner nearby, the bakery where Nancy Silverton had her bread epiphany.
Behind S. Maria sopra Minerva there is a little church of the candle makers! I took some of the Roman donors into this church once in a walking about video I made as “premium content”.
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Fr. McTeigue is so good this week that I’m embedding, not just linking. NB: The first part includes his ongoing look into the “Space Trilogy” of C.S. Lewis. His commentary along the way is applicable way beyond the specific volume (Perelandra).
Did you see the “poetry”… scribblings…. dribblings of the awardee of the Noble Prize for Literature?
I asked @grok to write something in the style of Nobel Prize Winner Anne Carson. https://t.co/olwOPmc2Fh
— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) October 9, 2026
Black to move and mate in 2.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
1. …. Qc3+
2. b2xQ Ba3#
Black to move and mate in 2.
1 … Qc3
2. b2xQc3 forced Ba3#
Eccles is saved!
Nobel committee, not so much…
I had a mental image of Anne Carson from her masterful piece of bovine effluent, and upon researching her pictographic and biographic information, found out that I was exactly right. Born 1950, divorced/remarried, academic… couldn’t make it up!
The chemistry Nobel prize is much more interesting today.
Ah, Perelandra. What a wonderful exploration of the plight of Eve. I felt so much empathy for her …
today i finally remembered to touch my new gravely inferior scapular made necessary by hospital staff losing my beloved old one to the parish’s reliquary for St Josephine Bakhita. still short at least 100 from the old one, but has egged me on to wear the St Benedict Medal that had all the above and then some.