Author: stuart

  • Harvest Festivities

    This was shown at the harvest service, someone commented that it always seemed to be sunny in the vicarage garden.

  • Hedgerow Harvest

    Two weeks ago the elderberries looking like they wanted a week of sunshine, this week most were ripe for picking! Haws and sloes, damsons and blackberries went in the bag for good measure. Hedgerow jam is on the cards, a few sloes might find their way into some vodka by the sound of it. I’ve…

  • correspondence

    I’m sifting through a pile of paper, most of it fit for the recycling only! Are we a correspondence clergy?  Fit only for pushing pieces of paper here and there?  As I sift, a number of emails make their presence known and the paper is forgotten for a while.  Messages fly backwards and forwards days…

  • Umeed Partnership

    The Umeed Partnership are now on JustGiving You can donate directly to the core activities through the link below or set up your own page to raise funds for them.  http://www.justgiving.com/umeedpartnership Alternatively you can help the O.E.D. Project to bring a group from Pakistan to perform a multinational, multimedia version of Joseph The link for…

  • September

    The hedgerows are teeming with life, most of it edible, we have so far (apart from the tree load of apples which our garden supplies) blackberries – loads, hedge garlic (still prolific) raspberry leaves for tea, haws for Haw-sin sauce and a few other bits and pieces. In a few weeks the elderberries will be…

  • Standing in the place of Privilege

    This idea began with the most basic and necessary of human needs, the loo! And why not! It is often when we are at our most vulnerable, backs against the wall, cornered like a rat that we are able as part of our in-built human instinct to react, call it fight or flight if you…

  • Greenbelt thursday

    How wet can it get on field? Don’t envy anyone arriving tomorrow! Though it is drying out… Here’s to a dry weekend from here on in.

  • Where your treasure is…

    … there will your heart be also. The cynical mind ponders the question, ‘Do most people come across this phrase in Luke’s Gospel 12:34 or in Chapter 16, entitled ‘Godrick’s Hollow’ of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? I suppose it will be one of those really annoying pub quiz questions one day where a…

  • Wheat

    A cool and blustery day finds me in the front garden, harvesting the of this years wheat…

  • August

    August is the month for dusting off the jam pan.  So far the apples have started landing regularly on the lawn.  Rather than waste these early fruits they have been transformed into ‘Spiced Apple Jelly’ with just a hint of the old favourite – Chilli!  Without a greenhouse at the moment the chillies are slow…