A face pressed against a window. Warm light spills through the parted curtains. Shadows hide the ten-year-old, the half-waving hand – heart ripped out of rhythm and lost.
A midnight wish from London
Full moon over London
London gleams in the dark as the seconds tick towards midnight.
Interview with former archdeacon on life, his new parish and the Church
The Venerable Adrian Harbidge – A fascination with timeworn pewter tankards has never left him
The volcano was ‘incredible’ but the sermon was ‘rubbish’ – the sermon, given at sea, ten miles south of Las Palmas, was the first the Venerable Adrian Harbidge ever gave.
Now in his mid-sixties, and some forty years on from his first sermon, he and his wife are the occupants of The Rectory in Seale, Surrey.
The Phraser 