Look what I discovered while browsing online re the 'O' Antiphones of Advent and Christmas time! A pipe-smoking, bearded, Christmas-loving priest. Here he blogs about the Rex Gentium, King of the Nations. And here is music and reading to accompany.I might have to come up with an excuse to interview him about his pipe smoking...that's quite a pipe. Is anybody able to identify it?
Update: answer provided by the man himself. Somehow he found my tweet linking to this post, and he replied:
"It's a BigBen Churchwarden 'Lord', bought in Oxford and smoked in the 'bird and baby' on the last day it was legal to do so!"
Thank you, Malcolm Guite. And what a history!
Good to find you here. I delight in the exercise of every one of the human arts you mention in your side bar, to which list I might add sipping whiskey, composing sonnets, and engaging in furious and friendly argument. I am blowing a smoke-ring in your direction.
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