Author: stuart

  • The dance of the trinity

    This description of the Trinity is not new, it popped into my head quick enough when thinking about Sunday’s services!!  I did however find this wonderful sermon on the subject, recklessly googling the line I came up with the Very Revd Alan Jones, a Londoner and Dean of Grace Cathedral – San Francisco his sermon…

  • High rise

    As we sped from Birmingham towards Gloucester on a strangely round-about route to Cardiff, a solitary high rise block caught my imagination. The High Rise block … … and the calves to match. Food is a crucial commodity, carried to the top, it travels a long way, almost as far as from the shop to…

  • Cash is spent?

    You may have seen an advert like this, well similar, I reconstructed this one while on the train, wasn’t quick enough with the camera!! Since there was nothing much else to do I started pondering the advertising, obviously offering some alternative to cash, turns out the old switch cards are now these, so basically another…

  • Gloria

    I was sure I had heard the piece of music that ended Good Morning Sunday on radio two this Sunday just past, however, it seems that it is from a new CD ‘New Dawn’ by Libera, the track is called ‘Gloria’ a little digging found it is based on Saint Saens Organ Symphony no.3 (YouTube…

  • Holywell Cadi Ha Treffynnon

    Welcoming spring and banishing the gloomy winter spirits with glorious sunshine on this May Bank Holiday Saturday singing, Hwp, Dyna Fo! and various other welsh numbers. Welsh culture and pride was at a high today for this festival, it was quite a bizare site for the uninitiated. Cadi Ha or North Wales Morris has been…

  • collar

    I’ve wondered before now what the point of the dog-collar is.  I’ve even considered giving it up outside of formal gatherings.  It can be annoying, especially in the street or shopping, of course one should view such occasions as ‘opportunities’ (maybe) it can also be interesting watching people’s attitudes towards you some speak to you…

  • the spinning wheel that wasn’t made in one day

    Well the spinning wheel is now done, finally!!  The problem was the bearing for the main wheel, I salvaged one from a bicycle pedal eventually!! I am now drawing out plans for the next one, neater, tidier etc. Of course all you spinning wheel enthusiasts will notice the deliberate mistake…

  • the way, was slightly diverted for a time

      I was distracted from writing by an excellent few days, but I did pen this – almost as it was happening. The course material started this train of thought, focusing on who we are… There is a chapel atop a rocky outcrop near St. Beuno’s, the key to which is normally on the hook…

  • the way, the truth, the life

    I reminded myself of some comments I made whilst being interviewed for the Diocesan Mag this week, namely that I (we) should make time to prepare properly for worship, making time amongst the pressures around. However, breaking my own suggestion, I kind of rushed the sermon on Sunday. I wonder whether I was too keen…

  • Cycling into next week

    Getting into this cycling thing, I decided that I should really test out the new(ish) bike and take it for a good long run… To St. Beuno’s and back. This was a test run for next week as we are away at the St. Beuno’s centre for three days. It was about 20 miles or…