Primates’ Meeting: Some Local Color

From a piece in the Church of England newspaper, reproduced at TitusOneNine:

While security at previous Primates’ Meetings had been tight, … three swans, two Irish “lads” and a goat protected Dromantine.

A
Georgian country house on 300 acres of parkland that had been converted into a
Roman Catholic retreat center, Dromantine at times resembled a PG Woodhouse
farce rather than the epicenter of Anglicanism.

Conservative American and British activists, and the press corps, quickly
found that Dromantine’s security guards were not a formidable obstacle to
gaining access to the Primates, and would kindly fetch ACC staffers or pass
notes to Primates if asked.

Dromantine’s fauna provided a greater hazard with a
correspondent of this paper savaged by a swan while photographing the buildings,
and assaulted by a goat, disturbed in his revelries.

Snow on Monday and the
manuring of fields through the rest of the week kept visitors on foot at bay.

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