Ian Watt

I have a cursed hankering after certain musty old values (Lord Peter Wimsey, Gaudy Nights).

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@CR_Mirfield He heard my first confession many years ago. RIP.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@monknunCofE Yes please. I'm not very well at the moment.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@GarethIG1 @RevRichardColes He heard my first confession, many years ago. Happy memories of a good priest.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@DrFrancisYoung The big Wetherspoons by the cathedral?

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@revhannaha A bottle of sherry and a selection of Barbara Pym novels

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@tomhfh I suspect he needs to be sectioned

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@monknunCofE I'm lucky enough to have known a number of people, some priests, some lay, some still living, some not, who have been a great example of living a Christian life.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@realmellors People like my 89 year old mother.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@liambeadle Death is brutal. And the Prime Minister has just had his mother die.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@FrDidymus @FrancesOGrady I'm not sure how she, being on a six figure salary herself, can speak on behalf of the poor.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@bishopoffulham @FrPeterAnthony @dioceseoflondon Wonderful to see. I passed St Cuthbert's every day on the tube when I lived and worked in London. It seemed moribund then. Good that Fr Baggott's ministry is paying off.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@polly_speight @SChads1 @liambeadle Well it's a Spanish custom, and probably not contrary to the rubics of the Prayer Book.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@polly_speight @SChads1 Blue vestments?

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@FatherSJMC No age really. He was at Nashdom, I think, before becoming RC. He was friendly to me when I lived at Ealing Abbey whilst doing studies at Heythrop.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@FatherSJMC He couldn't have been terribly old?

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@FrDidymus Retired people don't pay income tax either.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@twlldun He should have taken the Duke with him. She probably needs cheering up.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@scowcroft_sr One of the most blessed places on earth. I am sure you will get a great deal from your pilgrimage.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@downsidekeeper @downsideabbey Why the apostrophes? The years are not possessives.

[Ian Watt @Ian_A_W]

@phillipsc It had become hopeless. A couple of years ago the first 6 pages were about Brexit. You may think Brexit good or bad, but it's not what I read the Church Times for. The only decent paper now is the FT.