Status Updates From Catherine, Called Birdy

“No matter whose wife I am, I will still be me.” 😭♥️

My aunt Ethelfritha is behaving oddly. George says once long ago she was struck by lightning, which left her hair grizzled and her wits addled. Yestereve she sat at my mother's feet, strumming an imaginary lute and singing songs in make-believe Spanish. Today she thinks she is a sausage.

20TH DAY OF JANUARY, Feast of Saint Sebastian, who was shot with arrows, recovered, accused the emperor of cruelty, and then was clubbed to death.

“19TH DAY OF OCTOBER: Feast of Saint Frideswide, virgin, though why that should make someone a saint I do not know.”