Have you ever seen a starling murmuration? It’s a wonderful sight even on TV or social media but if you get the chance to see one ‘in the flesh,’ go for it. There is a starling murmuration map that gets updated every winter as sightings come in…

Do you recall the wager in the film ‘Shakespeare In Love?’ Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) persuades the Earl of Wessex (Colin Firth) to bet £50 that a play cannot capture the nature of true love?

My coming soon novel, ‘The Twelfth Cross,’ is set mainly in the year 1290 and involves a journey to the 12 locations from London to Lincoln that would later host the Eleanor Crosses. When the action is at Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire, the antagonist Derian Scand protests that another character's version of events is ‘a cock and bull story.’

These days we’re used to being instantly connected with others through the intangible mystery of the internet, a modern phenomenon that has embedded itself irrevocably in our lifestyle. Internet interconnectedness serves as a useful metaphor for prayer - the mysterious, intangible connectivity between us and God.