What are you doing up at half midnight on a Saturday night? Oh, I'm just making MeeGo characters

(These are meegons, which are the characters from MeeGo. However, putting them into this fandom is entirely my crazy idea.)

Gown-spotting with meegons

How to spot Cambridge gowns, with the help of some meegons:

Undergrads have short gowns that don't reach below their knees, and are allowed not to wear hats.

BAs have full-length gowns and pointy sleeves. Their hoods are rabbit fur (artificial these days).

MAs have spade sleeves. Their hoods are white silk.

PhDs are the same as MAs but with scarlet facings (unless it's full-dress, in which case their gowns are entirely scarlet). They wear a bonnet.

(But note that at graduations you wear the gown of the degree you have and the hood of the degree you're getting.)

Eddi's Service

I was walking home just now, reciting Eddi's Service by Rudyard Kipling to myself. It's a sad poem about a priest in Saxon times who holds a midnight service on Christmas Eve and nobody turns up but a donkey and a cow. It was a favourite poem of my grandfather's— the chemist/dreamer grandfather, not the soldier/architect grandfather— and he would often recite it to me. There's a refrain "a midnight service / for such as cared to attend", and because I learned it from him, I keep hearing myself slipping into his Nottingham accent when I say it.

Maybe I'll recite it onto YouTube for you folks.

(I wanted to say the chemist/poet grandfather, but he never as far as I know produced any poetry of his own. "That man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.")

(I'm also now wondering whether the line "for such as cared to attend" is a reference to something, like the rubric of the Book of Common Prayer, but it seems not to be.)

( the poem )