Author: stuart

  • More Greenbelt thoughts

    Still digging through the pile of notes I made after Greenbelt. I think the comment which sparked this off was by Richard Burridge, but it might not have been!! Reverse the Lord’s Prayer, what would that sound like?  Not the words, but the meaning.  I remember the comment, and the first line, however, he didn’t…

  • Greenbelt thoughts

    I’ve been watching ‘Big Night’ this evening, a small yet great film from 1996 where two Italian brothers risk everything to save their business on one night of food. I was led to this film whilst looking at material for a confirmation course, the themes relating to Eucharist are replete and muti-dimensional throughout it, however…

  • Fairtrade Clergy Shirts

    Keep plugging away, eventually the tide will turn!! Since being away I’ve realised there is a bit of catching up to do, I’ve just responded to a note I left myself to order some fairtrade shirts.   Maggi Dawn mentioned it a week or so ago, so I’ve taken the plunge and ordered two.  The good…

  • Back from Greenbelt

    There is now much to un-pack, dirty clothes and lots of notes on scraps of paper – photo’s will have to wait as I had to use an ordinary camera!! Once the clothes have been washed and the scraps assembled, I might even have something coherent to say. It was good to catch up with…

  • The Labyrinth

    Picture of the labyrinth This has been growing now for some weeks, I only got around to photographing it today, I must admit we are feeding quite a few slugs and caterpillars, but it has been used a fair bit. (some of our choir were late into the service because they we walking it!!) The…

  • Chillies

    Why does everything start to come good just as you are about to go away?? Toms are doing really well, courgettes have finally decided to grow, cucumbers are doing well, caterpillars are needing collection every morning and chillies, (sorry for the naff picture.) It has taken two years to grow this plant, (i’m quite chuffed…

  • Weather or not!

    Hmmm!!

  • Idealised country living?

    Following writing on Britain from above, and listening to yesterdays Thinking Allowed I have been pondering on the question of vocational living in any one of these places, rural, semi-rural, urban, city etc. There must be a vocational element to living in each of these, I’ve always been drawn to the rural setting, I don’t…

  • Britain from above

    Andrew Marr investigates Britain from above (BBC1 Sunday) – a revelation – if in reality there is no new information, it is truly a revelation to see Britain in this way, it really does display the preference of the country, in its movements, daily struggle to get to places, the transport networks, infrastructure and information…

  • Sound of Silence

    It’s been one of those weeks, culminating in today, when I have been humming along to a tune.  Fortunately this week it has been one I’m quite familiar with and fond of!! I treated the congregation to the full three minutes and five seconds of what is perhaps one of Paul Simon’s best known pieces…