David Beresford
Reflections on Life

Among the personal calamities life can offer, few can match the humiliation and heartbreak of being stood up at the altar on your wedding day. When you ...

The Choral opens in 1916 with smoke billowing across an open field. Along the horizon, the heads of what appear to be soldiers are advancing toward us. ...

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Directed by Rian Johnson Netflix Wake Up Dead Man is the third installment in the series of murder-mysteries which ...

Does beauty in itself possess an intrinsic value? In the movie Train Dreams, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) plays a logging man living and working among ...

The movie Nuremberg is set in the aftermath of World War II, when high ranking Nazi officials had been taken into custody by Allied forces. The prisoners ...

On August 1, 2025, we crossed the causeway to Lindisfarne. Acees is dependent on the tides, so you better get your timing right! 

"Journey" is a wooden sculpture, carved from seven elm trees, by Fenwick Lawson (1999). It is located in St. Mary's Church on Holy Island. ...

The beautiful Inner Farne Island, where St Cuthbert would go when seeking silence and solitude.

Ruth and me on the boat from Seahouses to Inner Farne Island

St Cuthbert's Chapel is a single-cell building and was built in about 1370. It is built on top of an earlier building, as there is C12 and C13 masonry ...