It's sacrelicious!

Well, it's not a chalice, but they could use one of those.

Anyway it's Nanowrimo, why research? :P

Oh God, Sir is mad. He's ringing up a Catholic church to ask. How helpful.

But alas, they have an answering machine!

Hehe, he talked to a woman at the church. The larger basin thingy is a font.

Isn't the font the thingy where you get baptised, not the holy water sink thingy?

btw (hijacking Shauny's brill comments... say, Row, you should get some!) what's happened to abrightcolddayinapril.com?

It is indeed a font; and if Microsoft have anything to do with it, hopefully NOT a Comic Sans one. Boom boom.

I'll get me' coat

Yes, it's a holy-water font. The font is also where you get baptized, if you're a tiny defenseless infant who gets cold water poured on your head. That's a different font, though, and it's called the baptismal font. Now that that point's been trampled to death, have a martini.

indeed. have a martini. in a font.

You win Mark, I'm getting onto it. Really. Comments AND archives, wow.

Sorry Shauny. Back to your regularly scheduled comments...

Here's a tip: when you don't know the name of something, neither does the character whose point of view you're writing from (even in the third person). That way, you can turn an omission of research into a part of your story telling :o)