Some days are etched in your memory for ever. This one, a blisteringly hot summer's day in the 1980s, will always be part of my 'favourite moments.' I was on holiday in France, enjoying the sunshine and scenery of Provence, and we arrived at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, a...

At our Christmas Day service we enjoyed singing a variety of carols (old and new) and looked at the carol 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'. One of the oldest carols (probably written in Latin in the 12th century), this is always sung as the penultimate carol in the Festival...

For some, Christmas Eve is a flurry of activity: shopping, cooking, cleaning. For me, Christmas Eve was always about celebrating my father’s birthday (usually with a meal out), watching the carol service from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge on television and...