Dear Malcolm and all subscribers, a very happy St George's Day to you all! And also, a very Happy Birthday to our Bard of England, William Shakespeare!

Our beautiful England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Unfathomably based

In Catalonia , Eastern Spain, we also celebrate Saint George, we call it Sant Jordi. He is the saint of the lovers here so we give books and flowers to our loved ones 😊

Such an atmospheric room!👌

A fair isle, and a noble element to our souls. St George's lance slay true the evil heart of a dragon. Happy St. George's day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

One shudders to think what The Bard would make of England in 2024. But the point about loving one's country through dark times as well as sunny is well-said. Happy St. George's Day to all my fellow Englishmen, at home and abroad. Cheers from Canada.

Happy St Georges day defender of the faith.

Beautiful England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 forever ❤

Happy Saint George’s day and much love from America!

Happy St George’s day, I love that I am English and proud of it.xxxxx🐝🐝🐝🐝

Happy St. Georges day from Iceland

The English have given so much to the world. We deserve absolute gratitude.

Happy St. George’s Day Malcolm. Sincerely, A friend across the Atlantic. God Bless 🙏🏻 As long as there are men like you England will never die. Peace ✌🏻

Happy St George’s Day! Thank you for keeping us a happy breed and may you thwart any dragons in your path. Your posts have rekindled my love of reading and poetry.

Very nice channel. Thanks for the video. Best wishes from Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

Your poem is wonderful. Thank you!

I’m Middle Eastern Lebanese & I love England & the English ‼️

'Alas... that England has fallen SO low....' Great St Georges day reading (as usual sir) & great poem. I think one of my favourite films (sherlock Holmes and the weapon) has a short version of this speach at the end. 👏👍👌🖖🍻 What a shame we can't even express our Englishness by adding our flag to the comment....

What a wisdom... thanks

“This blessed plot” was quoted by Basil Rathbone at the end of one of the old Holmes movies. Loved hearing it in full context here!

Wonderful! England lives. And marches on! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Hello Malcolm love your readings and pipework

Things you said put me in mind of the beautiful hymn, “I Vow to Thee My Country”. A dear old friend, quite the anglophile, often was brought almost to tears by those verses. Happy St. Georges Day…and thanks for your transporting poetry.

I live in America and no one around me smokes with a Pipe. I enjoy the videos and I smoke my Pipe while watching. I tell my wife that “I’m off to chat with Malcom”. Though I’m an American, your videos allow me to get in touch with my English roots.

I never knew why there weren't dragons in England. I thought perhaps it was the cuisine... 😂. What a blessed historical tradition

Happy st George's day :) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Happy St. Georges day from Holland.

Magnificent poem!!

If you love your country, you love it while it’s down as well when it’s up… Thank you for this, Sir.

England is dying. Who will save her? Who will even bother to fight for her at all?

This sceptre’d Isle. Some of the most beautiful words ever written. It shows the complete magic of the true English language 🇬🇧😁🥰

Wonderful poem, Malcolm.

It's also my 61st Birthday! 😁 Happy Birthday to the Great Bard, and Happy St George's Day!

St. George's Day always reminds me of the old hymn "When a Knight won his spurs in the stories of old, he was gentle and brave he was gallant and bold". I might have to visit St. George in Hatley now to see this wonderful sounding window!

A true wise english elder 🧙‍♂️

Enjoyed your lovely poem. Thank you.

Thank you! You should be England's poet laureate!!! St George, my favorite tale always as a child. And if only people knew that Shakespeare was a Philosopher for real--one that found his Sophie within, was initiated, and maybe even fully regenerated; because definitely the tongue of God (the fiery spirit) came through his vessel self and he was the Thought's act. And the isle of England is like Harry Potter's Philosopher Stone--(the Singular Male and Female energy combined) in the same way America was God's perfect idea to be the place where all men, undaunted by the State could find the peace of mind in free flowing spiritual liberty to return and seek within themselves their C-enter, that little room where they can form to and conform with the Image--become a wedded stone, and rest in eternity as they in act God's Will. Yes, America is still perfect because she is an eternal idea . . . may all of us bear His image . . .

What a curious story about the tree that damaged the church’s choir section…and what a beautiful way to rebuild. Reminds me a bit of something I once read: “The Robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief!”

As always, your words send the spirit soaring, Malcolm. I hope you had a lovely & blessed St. George's Day.

Thank you! Beauty!

One of my favorite parts of the day. To step away from the garden and heat to sit for a moment and listen to one of mankind’s best.

Beautiful poem and so well-read as usual! 🍻

Wish I could be having a pint with you at the Fort St George, our pub of choice back in the day. Salut!

Hi Malcolm! "Stand here awhile and drink the silence in." I have made this my prayer just now. Bless you and yours.

Lovely poem, Happy St. Georges day

Enjoyed You’re reading very much. Thank you. I am on my patio looking at the lush green trees old and magnificent in my part of Tx. Spring is wonderful. ❤

Thankyou Malcolm, and a merry England day! We have a group that does St George mummers plays at the English Ale event here in Australia, I’ve only managed to get there once, but it was fabulous.

I absolutely love how personal these videos are filmed. It genuinely feels like I'm just visiting a friend just to talk about literature, an experience that's very rare for me to find where I live. Thank you so much for all that you've done !

Video reminded me why My Fair Lady is my fav play ❤️‍🔥

Thank you for bringing the light of Hatley St George in through my window

Greetings from the Maritimes of Canada!

This channel is an oasis in the information desert that is KZfaq. A place of peace and reflection. I like the way you present books and texts, especially those by Tolkien. I can imagine the wonderful smell of pipe tobacco in your office. God bless you!

Wow

Thank you Malcolm! As one of many descendants of John of Gaunt (in the US), I thought of this passage as well when I was reminded it is St. George's day. In a strange twist, you will see that Leonard Digges contributed an introductory poem to the First Folio. Digges is a descendant of John of Gaunt, and I am a Digges descendant. Here in the US, our families always had copies of Shakespeare and the King's James Bible -- as they left Colonial Virginia and migrated into the wilds of the western lands of America, in the late 18th century. I was thumbing through my family volumes of Shakespeare as a child just starting school. So...this is one way the English culture imprinted itself in the "new land." Enjoy the day!!!

Happy st George's day to you

lovely video again!

Good Evening 😊 Happy St. George's day 🙏🏽 Thanks for the read 📖 Have a blessed day 🙏🏽 Greetings From South Africa 🇿🇦

Happy St. George day to you too, kind sir! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Mate, you're a National Treasure, love your stuff, the pipes, the poetry...gives me peace before I go to bed, thank you 😊

Happy St George's day Malcolm, and thank you for the reading.

Thank you Malcolm, just had my pipe, prayed in the sun and then came inside to see this video had just been uploaded, how blessed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙏🏻

I used to be a hindu and when I left for Holy Orthodoxy the demons previously worshiped dearly by me, at first came subversive with temptations of pleasure on my tongue and my mind from sanskrit verses and mantra previously, repeatedly offered in praise, shortly after swtching to tactics of terror by night; yet, by the intercession of the Dearmost Saint George, who in the temple of roman idols before Diocletian and through prayers toppled and shattered the lifeless images of the dead gods beloved, I was delivered from the torment and travail offered deservingly to me for such worship of them which had betrothed me to demons in adultery truly. Thanks to the Holy martyr St. George who heard the voice of this sinner and before the Throne of the Lord had interceeded for me. For the prayers of the righteous have strength, and such had delivered me .

Beautiful 😊😊😊 More ytpc awesomeness! 😊😊

A beautiful poem for what sounds to be a very beautiful church! I'm agnostic myself, never having felt that I had enough concrete evidence to believe nor disbelieve, but the way you describe St. George's I can't help but think that I'd feel some reverence sitting there amongst the quiet stillness and nature; in a place of peace built around it.

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I think you’d deeply enjoy the Redwall series by Brian Jaques! Anthropomorphic animals, a dash of fantasy and no small amount of heroic triumphs over evil - all set against the backdrop of a peaceful abbey in the woodlands

Love your readings Malcolm I'm a big Tolkien fan 😊

Hello Malcolm that was a wonderful reading,and that book looks amazing. I would love to have a collection of books like you have.

Best wishes with what you choose to read. I'm currently reading the Count of Monte Cristo. I might be some time. Happy reading to you.

Happy England

I was walking through a little local park to where I live this evening after a family event . It was my Mrs’s bday so all the family had been round for a bbq, burgers - chickens wings - halloumi. I was maybe 5/6 cans deep. The lushness of greens , the sounds of the birds , the slight dampness upon on the leaves . It was so green . So noisy with birds .so over grown but trimmed just enough to be functional . Every bush and tree bursting with life and ready to grow out . Houses surrounding the place , everyone living their own little lives . God Bless the UK . May she be a light for the world of the middle path we all must walk in order to live in peace . May she find her way again. I love my land .

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Thanks Malcolm happy birthday to mr Shakespeare

You always read really well and get it just right

To me, England IS its literature. I love the way each generation of poets was influenced by the one before, and the way the poetry describes, and is rooted in, the landscape and the seasons - in the parish churches and spring flowers and so on. Shakespeare read Chaucer, Milton read Shakespeare, Blake read Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, and so did Wordsworth, Tennyson imitated Milton, etc, right up to Geoffrey Hill and Philip Larkin. It's a single body of poetry spanning 600 years. So sad that people take no pride in it.

Thank you Reverend most interesting

St George's day was all these things and my Nan's Birthday. A lovely day to be English. Beautiful reading. Fantastic.

What a joy!

I needed this. You touched on the most beautiful yet sadly obscured qualities that are too easily forgotten, yet rejuvenating to remember

Also my Fathers birthday, remembered with much grateful love.

After a stressful day, I love to hop into bed and listen to your poems/readings while drifting off to sleep. It's very relaxing and the way you present it is just beautiful. Thank you for that :)

Wish the people that run the UK would take some pointers from this passage

Thank you, as always!

Nothing more fitting than addressing a beautiful tree to commemorate a passing of time. Even in death it continues giving and supporting. Now sadly, even our majestic beeches are under stress from disease. Now they need our prayer and support.

Your readings are so relaxing please don’t stop, love it!!

Thank you Malcolm.

love all the St George day stuff ,

Norman wisdom when appearing on desert island discs chose all his own songs it was a very memorable show ☺️ we watch you for you so please bless us with more of your poetry ☺️ it’s always extra special when narrated by the author ☺️

Thank you

Please keep posting these Malcolm thank you!

I find myself here again, with you Malcolm. Its been since Christmas and have been doing okay. A short dance around the rose garden, a breezy stroll past the rosemary hedge, yonder by the crabapple tree I see a bumbled bumble bee, happy to roost with you and me and books and tea. Seems when I need this enchanting world called yours, you are somehow promptly and graciously here. A story, a pipe, some smoke and a verse; is there anything left for you to do in this Universe?

That was a very enjoyable reading today. I always lite my pipe, get my coffee and begin your video. I feel like Im sitting right there with you smoking a pipe and drinking coffee. Thank you so much for taking time to make these videos. God Bless you and yours.

I love England and your poem evoked a feeling I’ve not had for some time. Beautiful.

Found this channel a few days ago, and all the readings, the books are giving this cozy feeling - time to return to my pipe too , finally have this mood for changing back to mine :")

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and poem.

Dear Mr. Guite Sir and dear English friends, i wish you a happy St George`s day, and all the best from Germany.

A pipe is a must have whilst reading books. Thank you Reverend.

I bought a copy of your book The Singing Bowl today after hearing you read the poem 📕