I wrote about my curacy experience, and when things fall apart in a curacy, in Prospect magazine. I would even come and teach it.”So, I’d begin with George du Maurier’s famous “curate’s egg” cartoon (Punch, November 1895), to break the ice. The bishop knows that the curate has got a bad egg. Instead, he pokes gently at the curate: “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones.” How will Mr Jones answer? A curate’s egg.
