Mark Chapman writes:

This time of year around Ascension Day has been traditionally associated with prayers for the fields and the land – it’s called rogationtide after the Latin word for prayer.

One of the great things about Easter is that it is a variable feast which is splendidly subversive of the boring regularities of the modern world – every year it is different!

Very sadly both Garsington and Cuddesdon have had a considerable amount of roof metal stripped off their roofs.