Just back from Midnight Mass...

[Robin Orton]

... and moved to sing in a foreign tongue:

Hodie Christus natus est, hodie Salvator apparuit. Hodie in terra canunt angeli, laetantur archangeli. Hodie exsultant justi, dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia.

Please excuse this extravagant behaviour. I shall have recovered by tomorrow morning.

[Maria]

Do you know Robin: I think that all sounds (and means - I learnt Latin at school) absolutely wonderful. And that comment comes, wholeheartedly but bizarrely, from a truly dedicated Richard Dawkins fan ...

I would rather you did not recover by tomorrow morning.

[Robin Orton]

. And that comment comes, wholeheartedly but bizarrely, from a truly dedicated Richard Dawkins fan ...

I'm a Dawkins fan too, when he sticks to subjects he knows something about. A wonderful science writer.

Interesting name, Maria - whether it's real or a pseudonym!