Music, sermons, notes & videos of my dogs.
Having originally started with posting sermons on this Blog I branched out to include videos of my dogs, articles I have written, and some of my music.
The things I write are as full of inelegance and error as any other quality I may rather they posses, but they may possibly be useful or even entertaining to you - maybe if only to take issue with what I have said.
Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
Westgate Carr Road is a long straight lane, lined by ditches, and punctuated by occasional farm and domestic buildings. It doesn't really...
This piece of music was inspired by ‘Tombeau des Regrets’ by the French Baroque composer, Sainte Colombe - not so much the music of that...
The history of this piece of music is curious. I wrote it in 2007 for solo violin and submitted it for examination instead of an essay. I...
'Silent Spring' is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson, published in 1962. The book details the devastating effects of...
.Sonata Concitato, Temperato e Molle (Solo Violin Sonata No 4) Back in 2004 I read about Monteverdi’s (1565 – 1643) theory that music...
When publishing a book I believe it is customary to have a ‘book launch’, this usually involves a party, drinks and nibbles, invited...
A beck is a stream, the word is commonly used across northern England and is of Norse origin. I find out of the way becks are a good...
Lowna Mill is in Farndale, by the river Dove. A gently beautiful place lined with wild daffodils in the spring, but I have seen the Dove...
Preudio - Allegro - Postlude Hagg - A wooded enclosure (of Scandinavian origin: hogg - to hew) Written in 2016 From 'Music for Solo...
In the summer of 2011 I visited St Hedda’s Church at Egton Bridge and was very moved by the relics and story of Nicholas Postgate, a...
I have revised my book of violin music, now it has a ring binder spine so is easier to use, and I have improved the presentation from...
A ‘Quaker Trod’, or alternately a ‘Quaker Causeway’, is a pathway made of stone slabs laid across the moorland of North Yorkshire. There...
Alternately known as the 'Resignation' Overture'.
St Dunstan's is a side chapel in Leicester Cathedral, it is a quiet place for prayer and reflection. For two years I worked as a verger...
Rudland Rigg is a pathway across the North Yorkshire Moors. It climbs up high onto the moor-tops, a bleak and open landscape covered only...
Wardlaw Hill is the site of an ancient hill fort overlooking the Nith estuary. In times gone by the Maxwell Clan from nearby Caerlaverock...
Angus Mackay (1812 - 1859) was Household Piper to Queen Victoria. He was born on Raasay, an island off the northwest coast of Scotland,...