6 May 2025
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Tolpuddle is a quiet village in the Dorset and the kind of place you could pass through without a second thought if you didn’t have a personal connection to it… except for the fact that, almost 200 years ago, an … Continue reading
31 August 2024
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In this month’s edition of The Garden (the RHS members’ magazine), the featured site for the East Midlands was a place called Hill Close Gardens in Warwick. It isn’t quite on our doorstep but not too far away and so … Continue reading
4 April 2024
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It was about twenty years ago that the world (of web developers) was getting excited about a concept called Web 2.0. That was my world at the time and, as I recall, the two key pillars were user-generated content and … Continue reading
5 February 2024
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It’s probably a little late in the day to mention it but it turns out today is the 100th anniversary of the BBC making use of the Greenwich Time Signal (colloquially known as ‘the pips’). I haven’t listened to a … Continue reading
12 November 2023
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Except for the rare years when Remembrance Sunday falls on 11 November, I have three events to attend – a silence on the village green at 11am on 11th November, the regular church service on the Sunday morning and another … Continue reading
22 August 2023
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What is switchel? A historic drink popular in the North Eastern United States of America that, like me, you’ve probably never tried before. Apparently it was popular with field labourers and reputed to be highly refreshing. A simple recipe is … Continue reading
6 March 2023
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Towards the end of February, I posted a photo of a stack of books to illustrate that I was preparing to deliver another sermon. You can watch the version I did the following day in our YouTube service for the … Continue reading
12 September 2022
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I’ve been catching up on my LibraryThing earlyreviewer duties in the past few days with The Doctor from Hell, a book about the notorious Harold Shipman. Most people will know that this doctor was convicted in early 2000 of murdering … Continue reading
11 August 2022
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One of the books I’ve got on the go at the moment is A People’s Church by Jeremy Morris (Profile Books, 2022), a history of the Church of England. I’ve just finished chapter 14, “Where Choirs Sing: Anglicanism’s Cultural Experiment”. … Continue reading
2 August 2022
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If there’s one criticism I could level against Mick O’Shea’s Pocket Guide to Glam Rock (Red Planet, 2022), it is that the author must have impressively large pockets. He covers this genre of music, which had its heyday in 1970s … Continue reading