Monthly archives: May 2025


Jan Beerblock, De ziekenzalen van het Sint-Janshospitaal (The Wards at Saint John’s Hospital), 1778 March 2020, Twilight Shift The hospital had one very big perk for a junior doctor at the time, a large doctors’ mess facility. Unlike most doctors’ messes, limited to the whole spectrum of cupboard sizes, from the cozy […]

A Quiet Night and a Perfect End, by Max Hollowday, ...


I have recently had the misfortune of hearing a truly terrible happy-clappy rewriting of Newman’s hymn Lead Kindly Light, arranged for guitar, drum kit, and Hozier-wannabe vocalist. I don’t mean to slate anyone who likes that kind of thing; only to say that the wild incongruity of the genre and […]

Lead Kindly Light, by Eleni Thwaites