The Hearth of Mopsus

When posting about St Christopher’s Hinchley Wood a couple of weeks ago, I realised to my mortification that I had neglected to give an acc...

The garden at Swanvale Halt Rectory is ill-suited for croquet. The lawn area is small so the customary pitch needs to be scaled down. It has...

Normally, Jill would have been on hand to deliver the Village Show together with her husband Andy. They've managed it with flawless eff...

Dr Abacus would, I’m sure, warn all of us that we should pay attention to facts and figures and not our own vague impressions of things. Our...

The 2021 Village Show was the first big community event Swanvale Halt was able to stage after the relaxation of the pandemic restrictions, s...

On Tuesday this week, the morning mass readings offered as the Epistle a particularly brutal denunciation of the arrogance of the King of Ty...

A year ago I was very excited to read Celeste Ray's book on global holy well traditions, Sacred Waters , which I thought was the most i...