As far as we can tell, St Cuthbert had a real soft spot for otters. riverbankscribe.wordpress.com/2016/09/11/c... Unlike St Peter, he had good reason. A stained glass panel in York Minster depicts St Cuthbert with fewer otters than you could possibly imagine (2)

Cuthbert and the otters

There’s a story about the Celtic hermit-monk, St Cuthbert, and a pair of otters, which is very endearing – but whose truth, until recently, I doubted. It’s told by Bede, his biogr…

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Gandhi was short. "Gandhi" was very long. However, ""Gandhi"" is short.

- Where are you, Pooh Bear? - I have no plans to call on you, Christopher Robin. So you take care to extend me the same courtesy. - Silly old Bear. You know I can't make that promise. - I wish we could chat longer but... it's eleven o'clock. Just about time for a little something. - Pooh Bear?

This reminds me for some reason of being on a bus in Co Cork whose driver, on finding most of his passengers were Brits, decided to strike a blow for THE CAUSE by putting on an album of rebel songs but for some incomprehensible reason one of the accompanying instruments was a Swanee whistle

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I still have traumatized memories of my aunt playing, in all sincerity, a taped poem in an Irish accent that was doing the works, the last verse of which went One day we'll all be in heaven Up there where it all did began And waiting up there for to greet us Mother Theresa and Princess Diane.