THE GLASTONBURY THORN

The pantomime season is almost upon us.  Catsfield will be performing Dick Whittington and Crowhurst is doing Camelot the Pantomime.  The latter has a tenuous connection with the stories of King Arthur. Over summer I visited the ancient Christian site of Glastonbury...

Remembrance and a Feisty Royal Nun

H.M. the Queen is probably the last major public figure to have served in uniform in the Second World War.  The Queen served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service where she learnt both to drive and to maintain vehicles.  Her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, of course,...