When I was a kid there was a woman who came to chapel on Sunday mornings wearing sunglasses even when it wasn't sunny. Thinking about it even if it had been sunny women in those days didn't wear sunglasses. At least not the ones in our half-forgotten parish. She wasn't young or she wasn't glamorous but she was attempting to hide something, unsuccessfully as everybody, apart from us kids, knew what it was. I'm not sure what happened to her. Nothing too awful I hope.
I'm sure if you think hard enough about it you know, or have known, a woman like that as well.
Ah, the good old days...
I was telling someone the other day that in our chapel, when I were an altar boy, the women all sat on the right hand side pews wearing head scarfs or is it scarves and the men were all on the left hand side. We were quite Islamic in Loughgall Parish.
Posted by: Eugene | February 07, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Good campaign. I love the new sidebar lists esp the poems. I loved that Albert Rios poem. If I were to list films it would sadly say The Iron Lady and We Bought a Zoo. Must try harder. (I do miss the what I bought in John Lewis list though, would you consider bringing that one back?)
Posted by: curious | February 10, 2012 at 12:47 AM
Eugene it wasn't quite so segregated in our chapel (seated about 200 uncomfortably) but people always sat in the same place and God help any stray visitor who accidentally took someone else's space.
curious I did use the John Lewis list as inspiration for a poem I wrote for my Lady Poetess class but I think the list itself has had its day.
Posted by: ganching | February 11, 2012 at 02:40 PM