As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

There were short stories and book reviews and Blythe later prepared a number of anthologies including The Pleasure of Diaries (1989) and Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War (1993). He never learned to drive and does not use a computer. His book At Helpston is a series of essays on that poet.

He writes a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled Word from Wormingford.