Church magazine about dogs

Hugh “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” Macleod links to a pdf copy of a church magazine that a friend of his has revamped. The current issue is all about dogs. I did a quick search and found that the Times had this to say about it the other day: TODAY’S restless churchgoers…

Hugh “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” Macleod links to a pdf copy of a church magazine that a friend of his has revamped. The current issue is all about dogs. I did a quick search and found that the Times had this to say about it the other day:

TODAY’S restless churchgoers might be amused by a copy of The Hotspur, the parish magazine of St John’s in the north Pennine village of Healey. Get a free concrete poem along with your church service times. Jamie Warde-Aldham maintains a proud Northumbrian tradition of textual embellishment as he creates a fresh — and decidedly eccentric — new format for the sort of leaflet that flops monthly on to village doormats. This month’s edition, to celebrate Chinese new year, is dedicated to the dog and includes anything from the chimerical creatures of Pliny the Elder to a essay on the canine genome.

Is the DNA segment responsible for the Jack Russell’s irrepressibility the same gene that gives Tony Blair his cocky grin? Did you know that Le Corbusier bound his copy of Don Quixote in the hide of his pet dog? Pick up a copy before you slip into the pew. Here is a postmodern chaser to Bourdichon’s “chat”.

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