Concatenation

Falling water, be it from craggy over-hanging rocks or a dam or in a canal as one water level adjusts to another – all are spectacles to watch with a strange kind of fascination. A lavatory cistern is so banal and so powerful in its potential for destruction. A...

Outlook

Confined inside a roomy house with a small garden and splendid view of Beverley Minster to the east and one of trees and rooftops to the west beyond the small back garden, we are immensely fortunate. Before the coronavirus lockdown, we had been mourning the felling of...

The Consequences

I sit thinking. Pen and paper on the table in front of the window overlooking Beverley Minster. The sky is blue. The red cross of St. George on the left tower hardly flutters. The sun is setting and I watch a shadow climbing horizontally up the west front as I...