REV STEPHEN GAMBLE

I prefer wild roses to cultivated varieties, as both a botanical and a general principle.

Can God Count? Or The Finding of a Fossil. According to the bible the world is 4000 years old, but thanks to science we know that the...

.Sonata Concitato, Temperato e Molle (Solo Violin Sonata No 4) Back in 2004 I read about Monteverdi’s (1565 – 1643) theory that music...

Landscape has a generous capacity for standing as a metaphor for human experience. Especially the play of light and dark. At present...

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...

Once More it is Eventide. "At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one,...

Preudio - Allegro - Postlude Hagg - A wooded enclosure (of Scandinavian origin: hogg - to hew) Written in 2016 From 'Music for Solo...

I think the beginning of Spring is hard, the clocks have changed, April has come round, it's a bit warmer but still chilly at times, and...

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...

Sunday the 17th of March 2019 was the last time I took a church service, which as I begin to write this is a year ago today. Having...

Though in a bare and rugged way through devious lonely wilds I stray, thy bounty shall my pains beguile; the barren wilderness shall...

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'.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.”...

Remembering Bartok Or Proposing a Hypothetical Correlation between Ear Size and Misfortunes in Canines. Bartok, it seems, had the ears of...

In response to my announcement that due to ill health I am stepping down as Rector of Kirklington, Burneston, Wath and Pickhill many...