Wool gathering of a northern dean

If you're visiting this site and wondering why the Decanal Woolgatherer has been silent since 2015, the answer is that he has retired! ...

Not my last blog ever, just the last in the role of Dean. I'm writing on my final day in Durham. You'll forgive me if it's a tri...

Well, almost. I'm on the last lap. Almost everything is done for the last time. Files are closed, documents archived, thousands of ema...

It's the equinox. The trees, still mostly green, display yellow highlights. The vegetation looks tired. The rose garden that has brought...

Today I got a web alert to tell me that a job has been advertised on the CofE website. Mine. DEAN OF DURHAM it says in big letters. That it ...

If you read my last blog you'll know that I've not been around in Durham for much of August. We have been in Haydon Bridge beginning...

Six weeks to go, give or take: retirement is charging down the slipway. 40 days - the same as Lent. But the prospect sometimes feels more li...