Francis Ephraim

thank you!

I'm engaged, I got engaged in January, sorry for not keeping all of you up to date

Biffo trips over a rock and falls into a nearby Man-Eating Crocodile Pit.

Beano #2502, June 30, 1990

"Anglo-american culture is the bulwark of civilization?" Buddy we barely have songs that start slow and get faster

a shark is swimming in the ocean with its mouth wide open ALT: a shark is swimming in the ocean with its mouth wide open

Frilled shark

May her memory be eternal. ❤️

I mean, Japan themselves gave him citizenship, and he seemed to be motivated out of a genuine love and respect for the people and culture. A portion of Kottō is a translation of a lady's diary, and he said in the foreword that he refused to translate passages he thought she would be embarrassed by

"I love my wife, though she wouldn't have been my first choice in a perfect world"

The window drew inspiration from the book 'Cuthbert and the Animals 'by John Mc Manners & the Lindisfarne Gospels. So two otters link to “The Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters” who were reputed to have warmed and dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating and praying whilst standing in the sea. The Celtic knotwork border is influenced by designs in the Lindisfarne Gospels.

St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire

“St Cuthbert” window (2020)
#HelenWhittaker

The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea.

#StainedGlassSunday

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer. — St. Athanasius of Alexandria

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. — St. Augustine

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

ran across this while looking for an old pic a friend asked me for. soundcheck at Grace Cathedral a while back. What I'm saying at the end is "I had to do that, thank you" to somebody from the venue who has kindly filmed me. enjoy!

When I was a child I wanted a prehensile tail and opposable toes, but child Francis was possibly over-optimistic about their potential utility, considering he couldn't use regular monkey bars

I'm so sorry. All of you are in my prayers!

Glorify Him!

Yeah you can come over and listen to my compilation CD of old time radio organ stings, but I warn you that you'll be wasting both of our afternoons if you don't pay attention

3D printers are either owned by people who fantasize about committing horrific violence, or insufferable nerds who want to print an endless stream of little toys for themselves—and we should incarcerate both of those groups if at all possible

*looking at my watch* well look at that, it's cast yourself into the abyss of Christ's mercy o'clock

Unrelated, but do you have thoughts on what sort of animal Set is based on?

Fun Akhenaten fact: he's considered a prophet in Islam, according to my sudanese friend

they should let you open the package and test it before you invest so much money!

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum."

Separate yourselves in time from everything connected with National Socialism. In the aftermath a terrible but just judgment will be meted out to those who stayed in hiding, who were cowardly and hesitant. — St Alexander of Munich

Headline for a column saying "Only a plonker would call time on sozzled bonking"

We weren't meant to have chronic inescapable access to online brainrot that drives us insane. We were meant to go insane the traditional way: herbs snuck into the soup by the scheming women of the village

the iced tea was made with white tea and bits of actual dried peaches, and I think she was either expecting peach kool-aid and was mad at me for giving her the peach iced tea she ordered, or, being in 2021, she had the very prevalent and communicable sickness that makes you bad at tasting things

one star review of a coffee shop, saying "This is the second time we have graced you business, and it is probably the last. Ordered 2peach tea. The tea was so weak, you had to work at it to taste any peach. It was colored water. The guy that made the tea, said he followed the recipe, and THAT WAS peach tea. I am not a tea drinker so much. But I know peach. Then he insinuated we had covid, because according to him loss of taste is a symptom of covid. That was not necessary to insult first our tea, and say we needed to go get tested. No, now that I think about it, we will not come back, and word of mouth gets around."

I made three whole batches of tea for this woman and had both owners, two managers, and three other customers sample the tea to make sure it wasn't just "colored water." Everyone except for her and her friend said it was good, if a bit strong.

a one-star review of Pride and Prejudice saying it's "just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

With miracles of genetic engineering so close at hand, my children or my children's children will be able to see a star wipe every time they blink