Hereford Cathedral School

Jared Barazetti-Scott, Molly Churchward, Charlie Cooper, Georgie Parry,  James Roberts, Mrs. Parry and Mrs. Locke went to hear Archbishop Rowan William in conversation with A.N.Wilson, discussing Dostoyevsky and George Eliot.

Some of us watched Buddhist monks from the Tashi Lumpo Monastery in Southern India perform their rituals and festive dances, clad in masks, brocade hats and hieratic costumes. A highlight was a quick fire demonstration of debating in Tibetan style with grins and grimaces, slapping and foot-stamping. Mr. Jackson would be taken aback by these antics and points of information. 

Some of us heard the talks on Thomas Traherne, seventeenth century mystic of Hereford and a Polish Catholic challenge to John Paul II’s teaching on love and lust. Hay was full of deckchairs and ice-cream, despite the damp weather mid-week.  It was a good diversion from AS revision, easy to justify.