Author: stuart

  • Late, tired and in need of a magazine article…

    Well, I found one,  in the form of something I had written previously. It is kind of apt as I ‘intend’ to tidy the study tomorrow, and I’m sure many are beginning their spring cleaning. These are the confessions of my ‘bin day’ week On ‘brown bin’ bin day I offer these things not as…

  • Cycling ‘n’ CME

    I Got the route correct this time!! Cycling as I was to Mold for CME, expecting great things on Mark’s Gospel, (and we got them) Dick France, a former principle of Wycliffe hall, writer etc was really quite engaging, and without all the new fangled toys that often appear at these days!! He was particularly…

  • Divine Delivery

    At last the Caption Comp prize arrives!!!

  • Blessed Bread

    I had been thinking about bread and its blessing during the Eucharist, came across a rubric from a Roman Mass which said (after the Hebrew Prayer, Blessed are you Lord God of all creation etc) “Now the Priest takes the Bread, which is now Christ’s Body”  Interesting, so the Hebrew prayer is enough words, that…

  • Epiphany

    It’s still Epiphany – two weeks to go, so why are people in so much of a hurry to take down the seasonal decorations? – I’m holding out for Candlemass…

  • toys…

    And here is the text it produced when turned into type… The antidote to two fingered typing _ l write I the computer types for me! Then Ican save it as a text file I but of course my writing Is terrible, so I wonder how well it will cope! Not too bad!  If i’m…

  • Lament and Rejoice

    My offering for tomorrow, reflection on a year past and hope for a brighter one to come! To lament a leaf… How empty stands the winter tree, once with a canopy full of leaves. How bare you are without adornments, No green covering to shade and protect. You wept bitterly in the early autumn sun,…

  • Cynicism Rewarded

    It’s not often that I get free Fairtrade Chocolate (Divine no less)… … and even less so for what I considered a cynical remark – The Church Times Ed. decided it was ‘Worldly Wise’ to suggest that Obama might be ‘Crucified’ as it were a few weeks after his ‘triumphal entry’. For those without the…

  • The Trees stand guard

    This is a poor picture, I only had my phone on me – sorry about that!!  I’ll have to return another day with a proper camera. The impression I get of these trees is one of sentries standing guard over whatever is at their centre, knarled fingers reaching out to catch the curious who might…

  • Falling in…

    I was sent a link to this place by a good friend, (who always comes up with inspiring and wonderful places actually) I’m not sure there are words to describe this place for me, it resonated with me on so many levels there was not room left to breathe.   I had found that experience…