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WFH: DAY 89. 7.15 am: 8.00 am: A communion. 8.45 am: On review, the musket shot that I’d fabricated yesterday sounded authentic. I returned to Jones’ account. What the witness heard was an acoustic phenomenon ‘like that of a gun’. However, unlike the sound a period weapon, the noise of the spirit ‘violently’ striking the bed — by the side…

WFH: DAY 86. 6.45 am: 7.45 am: A communion. 8.15 am: One thing I do know: people are far more complex in their psychology, motivations, conflicts, ambitions, and morality than they may at first appear. Judge not by either external appearances or first impressions. Indeed, judge not. For we are each of us flawed, woefully inconsistent, self-righteous, delusional, and prejudicial.…

WFH: DAY 85. 6.30 am: A communion. 7.00 am: 8.00 am: ‘Get on with it!’ Mail to mawl, decisions — for which there was neither guidance nor resolution (presently) — to consider, late postgraduate applications to review, a dissertation outline to look over, and a medical appointment to secure. Presently, there’s little hard information about how Covid-19 interacts with M…

Sunday, July 5. The CoE morning service was delivered by various contributors from Her Majesty’s Prisons. (During lockdown, we’ve all been prisoners of sorts.): The weekly post-lunch runaround with the vacuum cleaner and duster. How often the necessary and the irksome are synonymous: Late afternoon, we walked. Signs of the times: Monday, July 6. WFH DAY 84. 8.00 am: A…

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it’ (Isaiah 30.21). WFH: DAY 83. 6.00 am: I’d struggled, to no avail, to return to sleep. I ate an early breakfast (which meant that I’d be hungry again by 9.00 am). There was admin…