...work over the Christmas season, January 6th was traditionally a day off from all housework for women, and a day when traditional roles were meant to be reversed in the...
...parent seems to have its mouthful with a morsel of food to feed the chicks. Digressing slightly for a few moments, we have lived in our current house near the...
...any monks living at Salisbury Cathedral. Instead, the Cathedral was originally run by priests who didn’t belong to a religious order, and who lived in their own houses on land...
...the Cathedral recently. Produced in the course of nine workshops led by Howard Moody, Artistic Director of La Folia, with poet Martin Figura, students from Exeter House School and Salisbury...
...sit the ruins of an ancient city. A grand, stone-flagged road running east from the city centre was once lined with shops, temples and high-end houses. Among what remains is...
...to affluent households would go home not only to see their Mothers on this Sunday, but also attend their parish church, or Mother church. This has over the years morphed...
...small groups rather than large choirs, in Catholic households or domestic chapels. Interestingly, some of these clandestine household choirs seem to have been of mixed gender, reflecting the important role...
...the stage of the Salisbury Playhouse is not empty. Pantomime has made its triumphant return. If you haven’t seen Cinderella then do – and face down the sceptics. When I...
...was a ruling house that could not have had better PR. It’s not universal to respect a divinely-blessed earthly ruler. In our day, Vladimir Putin receives the fulsome endorsement of...