After fourteen months of covid-induced silence the single tenor bell was rung again, half-muffled, to mark the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh in April, and also to mark his funeral shortly after.

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget,

Chaste snowdrop,a. venturous harbinger 

Of spring and pensive monitor of fleeting years

On Thursday 24th February, I attended the 7:30am College Eucharist in the chapel of Ripon College Cuddesdon, as I often do.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.