I decided to tackle a full-on morning run today, and although I am obviously not in good enough shape to resume my previous pace, I’m close enough that there’s no purpose served in delaying. So: slow morning, coffee and fruit, shower, Morning Prayer, and probably public office hours at R&R after.
For some reason, I picked up Ronald Hutton’s biography of Oliver Cromwell and began reading it a few days ago. So far it has reassured me that Cromwell was as disagreeable a person as I had reckoned. I don’t have an ambition to take up Reformation/Civil War history, but (having engaged the topic in The Last Essay) I appreciate the value of better knowing my way around. I did enjoy Hutton’s casual ‘By 23 January, Cromwell was at Cambridge, and had set about the twin tasks of godly iconoclasm and the terrorizing of suspected royalists.’ The Making of Oliver Cromwell, p. 93.