king – The Rectory

November 30, 2024

As Noddy Holder says clearly and raucously, “It’s Christmas!” Strictly speaking, it’s not even Advent as I write, but by […]

October 31, 2023

I want to draw attention to five October and November dates which are significant for the way we live today. […]

May 31, 2023

As I write, the weather is warming up and, in the words of Prince Hal (in Shakespeare’s Henry IV part […]

April 30, 2023

I’ve written in the past about St Dunstan, usually in May, because he died on 19th May 988 (1035 years […]

October 31, 2022

Through the wonders of Twitter, I am loosely in contact with the son of the vicar who baptised me when […]

September 30, 2022

Over three and a half million. That’s one estimate I heard of the number of people the Queen met in […]

March 29, 2020

Coronavirus is here, and life will never be the same again. In reflecting on the current situation and remembering back […]

January 31, 2019

On 11th November 1947, Winston Churchill said, “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this […]