A selection of the Venerable Blythe’s columns, with contributions by Rowan Williams, Richard Mabey, Julia Blackburn, Ian Collins et al. Inquisitive, gentle and modest, but surprising and funny too – Samuel Johnson “like a January fool” for making resolutions, etc. Travels as lightly between present, past and future as a barn owl zooms across a field. What a beguiling, dear man he must have been!