Sir Thomas More…

…I met a descendant of Sir Thomas More on sunday last.

He’s a graffiti artist named Pure Evil whose trademark is vampire bunnies, based in Shoreditch, London.

He told me that relatives had to pay the gatekeepers of London Bridge to release his head from the traitor’s spike for burial. We speculated how that may have been a way to get extra wages.

I just returned from Belgium, specifically the medieval cities of Bruges and Ghent. The old city centres and abundance of churches and castles plus an active imagination bring the past to life. How many wars have intervened, how many re-buildings of ancient structures?

The Belgians have in Gent, a Museum van Toen, literally translated, a Museum of Then, devoted to school furniture, iconographies and didactic methodologies. Erasmus a good friend of SIr Thomas would have been very proud.