Dearest Gentle Reader, this Tuesday has delivered a most improbable assortment of affairs - a pound shop on the precipice, a Brexit resurrected from the very grave in which society had begged to bury it, and a celebrated songstress at war with an army of mechanical impostors. This Author has opinions on all of it, and rather a great deal of barely suppressed incredulity to share.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Wednesday has delivered arsonists, a hospital's fatal silence, a crystal meth-collecting former Justice Minister, and a hero who embraced a bomber - all before Canterbury makes ecclesiastical history this very afternoon. This Author's constitution has been tested, her eyebrow raised to quite unprecedented heights, and her admiration for a certain nurse from Leeds knows no earthly bounds.