The Hearth of Mopsus

In fact all the Easter services went rather well apart from a confusion about hymn numbers on Sunday ('I feel like a bingo caller', ...

‘What was all that Egyptian stuff?’ Ruby asks the Doctor in the middle of Empire of Death , a messy, nonsensical Dr Who story I didn’t enjoy...

Although I'm not really posting about things that don't relate to the church, my post-Easter leave this week did take me to Dorset a...

For this final stage in the journey we stretch the definition of 'Marches' a bit to include the land well into Gloucestershire! But ...

It's my custom, if possible, to spend a day on holiday without using the car, but to go for a long-ish walk instead. The weather was set...

My last visit to Chislehurst Caves in 2008 was under the auspices of London Gothic. Yesterday's wasn't, though it included a lot of...

This is a propos of nothing, but it was where my mental travels took me yesterday. My fascination with Ancient Egypt goes back to my childh...

My days off being absorbed by record office work, I haven't been on a proper walk for a long time. Apart from a desperate attempt to esc...

A long while ago I posted about my interactions with Ms V, the historical ultra-sceptic whose shifting beliefs about the origins of Cerne A...

Like South Wales, the Borderlands of Scotland and England were violent and debated, so there’s a good supply of castles and similar fortific...