Wool gathering of a northern dean

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...

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...

People don't always believe me when I say that in cathedrals, the diary in June and July tends to be more full than either Advent and Ch...

This is the day we have not wanted to arrive, for it has marked the end of Durham Cathedral Choir's year. At the end of evensong, we sai...

Midsummer. Not that you'd feel it most of the time. The cool grey spring has slid imperceptibly into a cool grey summer. In previous Jun...

I announced my retirement today. It’s not something I’ve ever done before. I don’t expect to be doing it again. So you’ll forgive a soliloq...