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Poem: While I’m gone

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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.

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A midnight wish from London

Full moon over London

Full moon over London

London gleams in the dark as the seconds tick towards midnight.

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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 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.

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