Pause for Prayer

Sometimes maths is frightening.  I am no mathematician, but it is a daunting prospect to look at some of the figures that could have been associated with the foiled car bomb attempt in
London this morning.  I know the area all too well and know that, had the car exploded as planned, the casualties could [...]

It’s not often that I can say, tongue-in-cheek, of course, that the Pope came to visit the house opposite this evening.  It’s a slight exaggeration: in fact he came to pray with the Benedictine monks at St. Paul’s and with a packed basilica of people of all ages, shapes and sizes, on the occasion of [...]

An interesting thing happened on the way to the Forum… 
…or, at least, was in full view as I stood at the bus stop at the Coliseum on my way to work.  Directly opposite, not quite on the skyline, but definitely on a level with the ruins of the enormous Roman baths, approximately 60 columns have [...]

If you believe it, the television monitor on the station platform says that today’s maximum temperature is 32°C.  It is a lie.  It has to be.  32° would feel cold by comparison!  The newspaper says that it is 36°C.  That is more like it as even the thermometer on my alarm clock tells me that [...]

The little girl, aged about 8 or 9, was with two women. Presumably one of them was her mother.  They were Bangladeshi, although they were travelling through central
Rome on the Metro.  The child was in high spirits and decided to play a game with one of the women whilst they waited for the train [...]