HSBC to some people, my favourite bank account, but the acrostic above is HSPD rather like the earlier Christian Jesuit one of INRI, so it is Happy St Patrick's Day from the Real Church of England. Not always our cup of tea was St Patrick as he was very much a romano-romano even though educated in Gaulish France at Auxerre at the Schola of St Germanus. But he was a brave commander. Gifted in the field. Also embarking on the First Crusade into the West, beyond the Edge, beyond Periphery of Empire to the islands that the Druids used to escape to, in the western reaches of the Atlantic. So it is a big day for the believers over there in the blue-green yonder. Nice saint. Like Germanus.
