The Hearth of Mopsus

Thursday was Corpus Christi, the feast of Thanksgiving for the Institution of the Eucharist. I have never made much of it at Swanvale Halt...

The Swanvale Halt Mothers’ Union branch is celebrating its 125 th anniversary this year, but is not in a flourishing state, finding it har...

A correspondent alerts me to the more recent history of the great Anglican Diocese of Sydney, in response to my mention of SD’s encounter...

Intercession is terribly good for you spiritually, quite apart from the good it may do the person for whom you are interceding. I know, for ...

Hope Six has prompted me to reassess some of PJ Harvey’s earlier work and more particularly those parts of it I’ve ignored up till now, inc...

I never cease to be surprised by the wildflowers that pop up in the garden, especially when my attempts actually to grow plants deliberate...

Many years ago I sat in our lounge watching Alan Plater’s Beiderbecke Trilogy with my Dad (or rather, I watched bits of it in between doi...