Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Long ago...

... VI-form schoolboy Patrick Burke sat at our kitchen table in Wallington, Surrey, with other volunteers, eating my mother's home-made biscuits from the old green tin, and helping to pack FAITH magazine...

Today I am sitting at Euston station, en route to Scotland,, for a FAITH meeting tomorrow in Edinburgh, presided over by Mgr Patrick Burke.  For old times' sake, I've baked a cake and packed it - oh, all right, not in a tin now,  but in one of those newfangled plastic things with a posh clip-down lid.  But somehow there's a good feeling  of continuity...Plus ca change...

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