St Joseph’s RC Church…

I went off to get my blip before breakfast so that I could watch the funeral of Pope Francis before I went to the cafe for lunch and a catch up. I expected to get a shot of the outside of the church and was surprised to find the door was invitingly open so I took a pic of one of the beautiful stained glass windows.

And I have an appropriately religious phrase of the day- ‘needs must when the devil drives’.

I thought I’d found my first example of a word introduced by the bard; but no…

Shakespeare uses it in All's Well that Ends Well: “My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives”. However, it is actually older — the earliest I can find is in John Lydgate's Assembly of Gods, written about 1420: “He must nedys go that the deuell dryves”.