Minstrels, monks, milkmen - what's the connection? This book is the story of one man who lived as a Carthusian hermit, became in turn a Cistercian monk, an Oxfam worker and a milkman, and who now finds himself at the age of forty a vagrant minstrel, an agent provocateur for peace and justice, trying to serve the cause of the dispossessed peoples of the world through song and silence, flamenco and his spinning wheel. An interesting rag-bag of experiences...