Yesterday had been a particularly busy day, and hardly had one begun to relax with a glass of Madeira and a slice of Lady Ariela’s excellent seed cake than the silence was broken by the bells of the Mon Blogue Convent for Discalced Carmelite nuns sounding the tocsin. As this is only sounded in dire emergencies, such as world war; alien invasion; a nation-wide outbreak of the Quivering Pox; Death of the Firstborn, or some other cataclysm ( or, as it might be, a cataclasm ) something serious was... Sign in to see full entry.