That the Anglican vicar of Terrigal had been defrocked for engaging, so the church's funny hats say, in multiple sexual liaisons, and that news on Friday was inspiration on what was shaping for me to be a pancake flat day. I like the sound of this fellow, Father John Gumbley. As you may have read and seen in The Herald on Friday, Father Gumbley is a man with a shock of curly ginger hair and a most un-vicar-like countenance who has been defrocked by the Bishop of Newcastle, Brian Farran, even though, the church acknowledges, none of the allegations - I prefer tributes - were of a criminal nature. That's a nice change, but the problem was, apparently, that he failed to heed a church doctrine that a priest's sexual relations be sanctioned. Is that how, I ask in my column, how the pious bods in the funny hats get their thrills? Just maybe Vicar Gumbley didn't have time to have his liaisons sanctioned, because he seems to have been very busy. I read, by the way, that the doctrine stipulates sexual relations between a priest and anyone else, and the anyone else is an interesting concession.

I'm trying to contact John Gumbley. What should I ask him?