Introduction to the liturgical context I have written about the Feast of the Ass before on equusasinus.net – including a link to the medieval hymn for the feast “Orientis Partibus” (see https://equusasinus.net/2018/01/14/feast-of-the-ass/ from 2018.) Today I am simply using this blog page to replicate the social media thread I am posting on Mastodon, so the … More Feast of the Ass, 14 January

Donkeys in Santa hats is a Christmas tradition here (since 2011 on the old brotherlapin site) and I wish all the readers of this blog a happy Christmas. For those of you who followed the blog last year during the very difficult times with Aitana, you will be happy to know she is very well … More Happy Christmas

When I walked the Camino during this current extended Holy Year 2021 – 2022, I gained another Compostelana and added to an experience begun in 1965, walking as a 14-year old with the OJE (the Catholic youth group of those days). It seemed as if the experience had come full-circle. Was there any need to … More The end of Compostela Holy Year 2021-2022

I left Am@zon about three years ago – on the principle that I pay taxes and so should billionaire Jeff Bezos! – and I give my custom to local bookshops instead. I have recently closed my Tw@tter account and permanently deleted it. The Mastodon platform is a pleasant environment and it is astonishing that it … More I didn’t expect the Camino Inquisition

This is the sort of donkey behaviour we expect on a Wednesday. Never get this kind of madness on a Tuesday. The change in the weather is quite often responsible for a donkey riot and today the temperature has gone down, the wind has risen and the donkeys are also distressed by the general world … More Full scale donkey riot