How Green Was My Curate: (Chronicles Of A Curate 1): Set in the sleepy Welsh Valleys at the close of World War II, this is the warm and humorous memoir of a young curate starting out in Pontywen, a small village peopled with unforgettable characters - and like most novices. Fred has an uncanny talent for landing himself in a succession of bizarre situations. Goodbye Curate (Chronicles Of A Curate 3): It's 1946 and the Reverend Secombe is reaching the end of his time in Pontywen. His beloved Eleanor is about to make an honest clergyman out of him. But life in the village is still far from straightforward. A seaside trip, a village fete, christenings and weddings provide plenty of scope for the unexpected and usually with hilarious consequences. Hello, Vicar! (Chronicles of A Curate) 4: The new Vicar of Pontywen now finds himself in trouble with a curate of his own, the Reverence Barnabas Webster - a man in love with status!