Author: stuart

  • Fairtrade for foodies

    We have just set up a fairtrade stall in the church (at last) but for those of us who need no encouragement when it comes to chocolate items, this is rather a big challenge in self denial, so in solidarity with those who don’t want to eat too much chocolate I decided to help them…

  • Gardening and the whole God thing

    Gardening in a slow process, one of waiting, watching and feeding. The joy at seeing the first shoots emerge, cleverly engaging the suns potential for their needs is fantastic for the gardener, yet we don’t really do anything except set up the conditions for the seeds to mature into plants. If we forget to water…

  • How many Trees … ?

    Serious question… no, really!! How many trees does it take to create 1000 sheets of paper? And if you want to be really pedantic, 1000 ish recycled paper, 3 sheets of card and one large brown envelope. One side effect of applying for all these grants for our Community Church project is that we end…

  • The Spinning Wheel

    It turns, it spins a length of fibre and winds it onto the bobbin. Well that is what it is supposed to do I hear you cry. Well ok yes it is, but today – finally I managed to make it do it. This has rather a lot to do with a post I was…

  • Women – not yet!!

    Oh dear… what is to come of the church! Will the time ever be right for moving forward I wonder?? a sad and sorry day. BBC Website report

  • Church Mag letter

    Dwelling on the moment is something I try to do and fail to do daily!! I thought it appropriate to write about it at this time in our church mag. Here is the copy. In a month during which I will spend time in the company of those with whom I was at college reflecting…

  • How to build a Spinning Wheel in one day

    First you need to have a week off. Then at the end of that week off, you need to decide rashly to build something ridiculously complicated and it needs to be finished in one day, because the next day you are back at work Planning has never been my strong point. However, I did plan,…

  • Coffee and Waffles

    These I have not seen for some time, about a year in fact, well of only one of the two!! Coffee is a regular feature… It was in fact, essay submission time last year that I had the last ones delicious little snacks. Fr Stephen the squash playing Priest introduced me to them a few…

  • Almost about gardening

    I was about to write something about gardening and parishing, then I came across this Where is the Love and got cross… It reminded me of all the reasons why I shy away from the ‘evangelical’ (in its worst meaning) wing of the church. Slowly calming down I remembered someone telling me from our parish…

  • Good Friday Meditation

    This video is a shortened version of my Good Friday vigil meditation. (the original was 45 mins long!!) It goes with the 'Seven words from the cross' reading and meditation from 'Stages on the Way' (WGRG)