Christmas At The Rectory
Christmas was a busy time for my Dad. He was a Church of Ireland clergyman and, to use a showbiz term, he knew he would have packed houses on Jesus’s birthday. He gave three...
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Bats, Boomerangs, and Badedas
At one point during my childhood my father wanted to popularize the boomerang. We were living in a rectory in the depths of rural Ireland, so I was somewhat surprised at this new project. He...
A Rectory Menagerie
My childhood home, a rambling rectory, not only housed my family but a marvellous menagerie of creatures. Among our more exotic pets were a pair of chameleons and some tree frogs. The chameleons darted...
Rectory Memories
Mum loved animals and at one point we even had two chameleons and some tree frogs in our rectory menagerie and two ground squirrels inhabited a largish cage in our bathroom. One of the...
