Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Israel Vanderplank

Israel Vanderplank was a procurator of the vicars choral at Salisbury cathedral and this memorial plaque commemorates his life.  I was struck by the unusual name, and trying to find out more, I find that there was also an Isaac Vanderplank who was connected with the church. Israel was the vicar at Salisbury Cathedral for sixty […]

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Iceland mystery

I visited Iceland a couple of years ago and I’m so excited that I’m going again in November. I read a lot of novels set in Iceland, including those by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Michael Ridpath, and since one in ten Icelandic people are published authors, I have a lot more to discover and enjoy! […]

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