Author: stuart

  • Hardy perennials

    Away for a few days learning to be a new incumbent, we arrived for lunch greeted by the ‘hardy perennials’ a group of ladies of no specific age taking root in the dining room, as we prepare to work, ‘the tempest’ begins and we are overrun by sailors, beasts and maidens. Is this a vision…

  • mis-guidance

    Thank-you John and Diana for a little mis-guidance on how to walk around the parish without missing things of interest.  I think i’ll start by letting someone set the start point and someone else the end point, we’ll have to see what we find in between…

  • Christ in stranger

    You will need to see the previous entry on Woodfest to set this in context. I referred to the ‘Mushroom Man’ in the context of Luke 7: 11-17 to speak about thresholds, Jesus at the threshold of the town, the Widow at the threshold of life and death with her son.  Jesus touches the edge…

  • Woodfest

    Woodfest again at St. Asaph, don’t miss it! Or try to remember next year… There seem to be a number of different types of people exhibiting or competing. Most working in their field and making a living the way most of us do, wood things being a profitable sideline. There are the commercial firms whose…

  • June

    So June is here, the longest month in terms of daylight hours of course! 4am till 10pm. How is one to use such a gift? I have been re-reading an old friend, it was a ‘priesting’ gift from the then bishop. On presenting it to me he said, ‘well, Stuart always was a bit alternative’…

  • God of the Gap

    You might be forgiven for thinking I was about to launch into something regarding a certain clothes store which had undertaken an alternative advertising programme.  Well you’ll be forgiven, and gladly, wrong!  As far as I know the afore mentioned clothing outlet is not claiming any particular condescension by some deity or other.  God of…

  • Blossom

    And a lot of it!! But not many bees, but I think I have found the answer thanks to Resurgence and a book by Philip Chandler

  • May

    How to stand three on a milking stool. Or, how a hung parliament might actually work! The thing about a milking stool is that there really is only room for one, however that is always going to be a precarious postion as with only three legs you can easily get pushed off. Standing three is…

  • April

    Showers? well, not really so far, warm sun and long afternoons… I could not help but chuckle during the Chrism Mass at the Cathedral this year on April Fools day +Gregory suggested the clergy should be ‘silly’ explaining the entomology of the word its original meaning was closer to the word blessed. However, I was…

  • On moving

    Faced with packing ones stuff away to move it is so tempting to throw everything out and start again with the bare essentials, (of course we’ll all argue about what is really essential) however that seems just a little wasteful if not buying in to the consumerist trend.  What we did do, was get rid…