The Hearth of Mopsus

The name of Byre Cottage – at Dodbury, at Garrigill, near Alston in northeast Cumbria – suggests it used to be essentially a cowshed, but th...

If you look at yourself for ages in a mirror, your face tends to look weirder and weirder until you no longer completely recognise yourself,...

Over late months I've acquired a couple of pictures which I have just now got around to putting on the walls of the Rectory. While I was...

On Wednesday I and Margaret from the congregation went in through the airlock-like door of Widelake care home, and followed a member of staf...

It finally happened: my Goth Walk about the history of late 19th- and early-20th century London occultism was originally going to take place...

During the pandemic I was able to book an appointment with my GP via their online system and I assumed that would be the same today. Not so:...

This flower has appeared in the garden as a welcome distraction from anything else that might be going on and a reminder that the earth will...