Author: stuart

  • Greenbelt – Saved by Paradise?

    If we engaged with Peter Owen Jones & Bruce Stanley then perhaps (always worth listening) …And then the rain came down, almost comical that on the CT guide to greenbelt there was an Ark.  Dave did you know in advance what was going to happen on Saturday…?  Musical Highlights included Timbre (below) EmanuEl in the…

  • March

    March is the right word, the year is fast-moving!!  This month shows the first signs of Garlic Mustard, a fantastic plant for pesto and it’s everywhere this year – get it while it lasts!!  The young leaves are the best. See Plants for a Future database for more information!

  • Lent One: The walls that contain us.

    Well Lent has begun.  40 days of fasting of sackcloth and ashes.  Are we enjoying it? – don’t answer that, I really don’t want to know!!  For those who have given something up for Lent this year, you’ve had four days already since Ash Wednesday, so 36 to go and remember that Sundays don’t count. …

  • Less dust, more Glory

    I reflected, (much to everyone’s amusement) last week on dust. I don’t want to repeat that experience, but I do want to go back to the beginning of the journey that I related and do it all again.  Perhaps we missed something at the first attempt.  It is transfiguration Sunday today as we look (forward)…

  • Dust – Creation Sunday

    Ok so I have been reading Philip Pullman recently his Dark Materials Trilogy!  And ‘The Golden Compass’ based on the first of the books, ‘Northern Lights’ was an engaging film, however ‘Dust’ is given an altogether different status in the books and it turns out that what he calls dust in the fist book /…

  • February

    And winter is now settling in!  Though the trees have arrived, Bardsey apple among them, the ground is perhaps just soft enough to plant along with brooms and bamboo and other such tree delights.  Seeds are sprouting on the windowsill – the promise of a new bounty.

  • January 14th

    Beaten only by the Steak and Ale Pie that followed it!

  • January 13th

    Could be anywhere!

  • January 12th

    Walking for inspiration

  • January 11th

    Never thought I’d say glad to see that sign