Author: stuart

  • Clergy Conference

    Being driven north at the beginning of this week really did give me the sense of leaving the office, much more so than last weeks diversion to Cardiff. Passing Blackpool tower in the far distance shortly we arrived in what appeared to be the middle of somewhere. Lancaster University, situated about 5 miles outside of…

  • Collared

    Well, someone did ask for a picture of me in a collar! Get your own Simpsons avatar at the Simpsons movie site

  • Bread

    It’s that library again … No not dodgy books suggested by daytime TV, but an excellent guide to bread making called ‘Bread Matters’ by Andrew Whitley. Not only are there tons of great recipies; I can vouch for about 4 of them so far!!!! but also the difinitive reasons not to buy shop bread, even…

  • Llanfair Talhaiarn

    This is an unremarkable village in that it really is nowhere, at least, it is now, nestling 5 or so miles south of Abergele on the banks of the Elwe river. You would be forgiven for suggesting it is just a postcard village and if you read the village web-site you would be forgiven for…

  • Return to reality

    Back for a reality check for a few days. This isn’t to last … off to clergy conference next week. As John says, everything seems to go wrong when you go away, well not so much for me, but life in the parish has become busy to say the least, even though we won’t be…

  • Back to College

    We, that is the Deacons in Wales who were ordained this year, are back in college for a few days. It is certainly strange being back, I did not envisage missing much, yet the nostalgia attached to being here is certainly quite unsettling. I think it must be the lack of being on show, able…

  • Holywell Prayer / Poem

    This was part of my submission to the magazine We give thanks for our town, our own slice of heaven;Where the work-a-day stops not one day in seven.We give thanks for our town, our own sacred space;For the people that work to make it our place. A blessing on those who work in our shops;Whose…

  • Outnumbered

    Outnumbered is a new comedy from Andy Hamilton – radio 4 junkies will recognise this name from pretty much every panel show. (the funny ones anyway!) Last night was program one, tonight and tomorrow the saga continues, then again for three nights next week. The beauty of this is that the children are unscripted, it…

  • Community Bar-B-Q

    I’m a bit of a synic when it comes to people and them doing stuff. There is a lot of talk, but not much action. When groups of people do get their act together and do something for each other – like we saw when the country was half under water – the comments are…

  • Bank Holiday Weekend

    Sat in study in North Wales… Not the place to be on August Bank Holiday weekend, the place to be (at the moment) is Cheltenham race course. I haven’t got a taste for the races either. It is the Greenbelt festival this weekend. I was reminded about this when turfing through papers from the old…