Thought for the Week: Lent

John Punshon reflects on Lent

by John Punshon 14th March 2014

It’s a funny old world nowadays. You can have strawberries when you want them instead of just at the beginning of June; you can have daffodils all year round and hot cross buns at Christmas. That is fine if you grow daffodils and strawberries in the Andes and fly them over to the UK, or even bake buns in the factory down the road. But for those of us who grew up without the advantages of modern life, there is something odd about abolishing the seasons.