Read below for Jeff’s last Pastoral Letter of the Pandemic, before the sequence of three, based on your contributions..... My dear...

My dear Friends, Murders have kept me going this past year. Perhaps I should clarify.... I have derived delight, and distraction from the...

My dear Friends, There is an intriguing sequence of scenes in the second of the celebrated series called The Crown, where the two Houses...

My Dear Friends It was over thirty years ago when a friend introduced me to the novels of Barbara Pym. To be honest, at first I found...

My dear Friends, This past year has perhaps aged us all, but I recently realised that it is approaching half a century since I first...

My dear friends, I rejoiced yesterday the 27th May, as perhaps you did, to find that details of the concerts for this year’s BBC Proms...

Last Sunday, when we celebrated the Ascension of Christ, was a culmination. This coming Sunday, the feast of Pentecost, is a commencing....

One of the many minor irritations of lockdown for me personally has been not being able to take my carriage clock to the clocksmiths to...

"This is the work of God: that you believe in the one whom He has sent." (John Chapter 6 verses 29) My dear friends, As this coming...

Last week as we commemorated St George, Patron Saint of the English, we thought about a land of shopkeepers. Today, in order to balance...

Dear Friends, To those of you who identify as English, I wish you a happy St George’s Day, though I am advised that it was the Scottish...

Under a watchful eye, the Union Flag on St Mary's church tower was raised again to full-staff at 0800 on Sunday 18th April. Our post on...

My dear Friends, This past week the Government in England relaxed certain restrictions caused by the Covid Pandemic and allowed people to...

Whose Coat of Arms included the words: "GOD IS MY HELP." We were told by the media on Easter Day that Her Majesty the Queen and His ...

The Union Flag on St Mary's Tower was lowered to half-staff today, 9th April 2021, as we join with all those around the world in...

My dear Friends, Especially those of you who are still reading these letters a year after I first started sending them! A Happy and...

Dear Friends, I was reading something this past week which Stanislavski, the Russian dramatist and thinker, wrote: "The longest and most...

Our post on Easter Sunday marked the completion of a year of bringing you an 'Icon of the Day' compiled by Dr Katherine Cox for these...

i thank you lord for this most amazing day ee cummings *** Image: Sunrise near Hausdülmen, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....

‘Hardly anything turns out the way you expected it to, and you’re frequently ready to write life off as too paradoxical and too difficult...