Last week I was the guest speaker at the semi-finals of the Book of Common Prayer recital contest in Kent. Even one of the participants said to me, “This is a bit eccentric, isn’t it?”
I’d been invited to give a talk on “my relationship with the Book of Common Prayer.” I didn’t think I had one, so I was minded to decline – except that the lady organising the event was so nice and persuasive that I gave in. She wrote that she couldn’t offer me payment “but I can guarantee you a parking space”. That was an offer I couldn’t refuse.
