I often get interesting requests from my blog’s search engine.

Landing on the sun – Well, sometimes it gets quite hot in summer, and this planet is quite a long way from where the temperature gets into the millions of degrees. Cooked to a turn in no time flat! It would do St Lawrence proud…

Mirror dinghy names – That is quite a challenge. Here is a forum that discusses boat names. Interestingly, someone has called his Mirror dinghy Vagans. Perhaps she is painted in episcopal violet and has a mitre on the mast!

A query came in for the Anglican Catholic Church and Bishop Mead. It is a subject I almost never discuss, though I am impressed with their seriousness and stability. People often look up the Nordic Catholic Church and Bishop Flemestad, but I have nothing to report for the time being. They have their blog and have shown a couple of videos about the Anglican Benedictine convent in Costock in Nottinghamshire.

I am at a loss with europeans (franco-mauritians & coloureds). We are a mixed bunch, just as much as in the US. France has Overseas Territories and Overseas Departments, which used to be parts of the old Empire. Yes, the French had theirs as we Brits had ours. Much as I welcome racial and cultural diversity, I think there are better places to look than my humble blog!

Understanding Celtic Christianity – That is something we all need to try to do.

The one that really tickled me was As the Sun in its Orbit. A century ago, the circumnavigator Joshua Slocum had to be careful when he visited South Africa as he returned to the Atlantic Ocean from the Indian Ocean by the Cape of Good Hope. He had to say that he had crossed the world rather than gone round the world, because the powers that be down there still believed the world was flat! I have always learned that the planets orbit around the sun and the sun doesn’t orbit around anything, so it would be wrong to speak of the sun’s orbit. There is a question of our galaxy, whether it is static or turns, but you would have to ask an astronomer.

The Church of Salisbury shines as the sun in its orb among the Churches of the whole world in its divine service and those who minister it, and by spreading its rays everywhere makes up for the defects of others.

The quote from Bishop Giles de Bridport, or rather its translation from Latin into English, seems to use a poetic device, because the sun is an orb, a sphere. An orb is not an orbit. We sometimes speak of the orb of the sun.