Humpty Dumpty

‘Take no thought for the morrow,’ said Jesus (Matthew 6.34). But we do. We insure our house and its contents. We pay in for a pension. We...

Power has come on in leaps and bounds since Richard Trevithick started the age of steam. We arrived at the ultimate in steam locomotion...

There are different ways of laughing. There is the delicate appreciation that greets a well contrived pun. There is the awkward hesitancy...

In the days when Jesus and his disciples discussed deep matters, there was no such thing as Christianity. Nor did the word become...

If song-writer Sammy Cahn was right when he said that love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, he was giving us something...

Such words might be addressed to a a trainee pilot as he takes off solo. ’Winkle’ Brown might have heard them many years ago before he...

Think of Knutsford, and Elizabeth Gaskell comes to mind. Dorchester means Hardy. These writers are inseparable from their landscapes....

Morris dancing, Su Doku, .22 rifle clubs, model railways have their day and pass away. And nobody is he worse for it. Each enthusiasm is...

Until all we drivers are electrified, horses are much like our vehicles. Cars have a gear-box and four gears to choose from. Horses have...

Now that astronomers have detected the most distant object in space, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Francis Drake and the whole...

As the Church of England struggles with the problems left by the pandemic and declining belief and attendance, there are other churches,...

Shove-ha’penny was a game tht required smooth coins. A ha’penny had to glide to its -place. That meant a polished coin., a case of...

There is nothing in the Sermon on the Mount about keeping up with the Joneses. But we all go about it assiduously. Let the flowers go...

The second most dangerous duty facing a vicar is the removal of pews. But that is nothing compared with the even more dangerous duty of...

Simple, isn’t it. The word ‘drove’, I mean. It’s just the past tense of the word ‘drive’. But that’s not all it is. On this side of the...

When push comes to shove, we do not always make the best choice. The scales may have been doctored. Heavy advertising may have swayed...

A dead engine flickers with life. There’s a spark. It’s turning over. A great mass of metal, a cylinder-block, is suddenly throbbing. It...