Author: stuart

  • 5 days to go…

    What is it about cardboard boxes that makes them hang about forever. I have tried to empty them, yet more seem to appear out of nowhere. Grumbling aside – (don’t get me started on the weather… it’s called Holywell cloud apparently.) it is good to be settled in one place for a while at least,…

  • No internet…

    Well, no internet, no phone, nothing… Ahh bliss… Until you discover the joys of the local library. The last few weeks were pretty much a rollercoaster, emotional and moving speed. Dashing up and down between Cardiff and Holywell as if it were just down the road, popping into Amelia Farm to say goodbye was difficult,…

  • In the Middle

    I was duly given the stern advice that one should get one’s priorities right – especially in ministry. God first, then the church, all else follows. My immediate response was of God third at least!! A much better response however was given by means of a meditation in chapel yesterday. God in the middle. Strangely,…

  • Crem

    ‘The most important visit of the year’ said someone… Well it certainly was a real eye opener. 90 mins a 1200 degrees whether you like it or not! The real gut crunching moment came when they were talking about cleaning the insides – re-bricking etc. Not a job for the nervous. Although a good visit…

  • Post-portfolio

    There are many things to be done post-portfolio – like buying a car! Of course, things like that can wait, especially when you discover the toys on Microsoft’s (sorry excuse the bad language!) web site. Add that to the site plan from Watkin Jones and voila one aerial map of the new house!! I hope…

  • Farming & Agape

    Cycling through delightful villages on the way to Amelia farm for what was to be one of the last visits I will make this year – never say you won’t return! – was strangely nostalgic for the past year. Although the majority of the time was over the winter, my early morning struggle up the…

  • The essay game

    Here layeth the gauntlet down (Richard) 6000 words in six days – pah 8000 in 4!

  • Essays

    Why do people always leave them to the last minute, then complain because the books are not available? Eh, Makes no sense! But we still do it!!!! I have now changed the title of my final three essays for the third and final time, just so the available books are relevant!

  • Juggling

    Good practice for ordination I guess. Got back from Iona, one day of family stuff, end of term service to do music for and a few hours later in a car racing off to Liverpool to be involved with Holy Week at St. Anne’s Stanley. It was a fascinating look into parish life during a…

  • Student’s week on Iona

    It seems like a year ago at the moment, but it really was only a month ago that I was (yet again) on Iona leading student week. Being the week which included the 200th anniversary of the successful abolition of Slavery act of parliament we were looking at forms of slavery that continue. Especially slavery…