Like Waugh after the new liturgy, am I finding it hard to get through the door at Mass?

I was once told that Evelyn Waugh bought Combe Florey, his house in Somerset, because it was sufficiently far from a Catholic church for him to be excused attending the post-Vatican II Mass he so despised.

Sadly, I fear this anecdote may be, as we journalists say, too good to check. Whilst the “buggering up of the Church”, as Waugh put it, undoubtedly exacerbated his choleric rage, contributing to his death, aged 62, Combe Florey was purchased in 1956. The new rite wasn’t promulgated until the end of 1963.