Author: stuart

  • Amelia Farm Day 4

    Spent the morning with Key stage 3, that’s the senior school age group before GCSE / O levels for those like me who know nothing! These kids properly organised should be in mainstream school, albeit in an HDU, and all the schools they were from had them! What is going on! Why do we not…

  • Amelia Farm Day 3

    Kayaking today! Me, an instructor and three kids. It was different seeing them away from the farm setting, they were out and about, enjoying themselves, but learning on the sly! There is a good rapport between the kids we had today, not fighting or winding each other up which is a blessing! It is transformational…

  • Amelia Farm Day 2

    Different day same … well not really every day is different from the last in every way! The morning was spent making a wooden tree guard, but without kids, a little disappointing from my point of view, but not to worry! However the afternoon was interesting, digging holes with reluctant kids. They got involved eventually…

  • Amelia Farm Day 1

    You know, it’s strange, when you think you have had many experiences which chart life, and can’t really think of much which will really inspire or challenge, (not in an arrogant way, but especially when you are not expecting it) then one comes along which smacks you between the eyes. Today I was being driven…

  • Tradition

    Just read this in the “Resurrection: Myth or Reality?” by John Shelby Spong. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. But traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if any jot or tittle changes, the whole…

  • Summer

    The choice of a summer placement was mine so how was I to know that the majority of people did a church based placement. Was there some unwritten code which stated that you had to have a placement in a parish? Something to do with preparation for ministry. So I chose not to choose a…

  • Bells

    Long time no blog! Well it’s over, the first of two years training that is… Yes still alive! During the last week of term we had a quiet day at Ty Mawr convent. It was hot beyond belief, but aslo a really great time. We went through the Myers – Briggs type indicator. So why…

  • Having our Tea

    There’s something religious in the way we sit At the tea table, a tidy family of three. You, my love, slicing the bread and butter and she, The red-cheeked tot a smear of blackberry jam, and me. Apart from the marvelous doting Of a world’s interchange with each other… there’s tea. Stupid, they say, to…

  • Jesus? Married?

    One of those wonderful conversations with friends… we talk about everything including the Da Vinci Code! Well I read the book – a good read, if not a little annoying at how often the truth is stretched! Anyway, the end of this part of the conversation went something like, … and anyway Jesus could never…

  • Resistance

    How is it when the exams are looming, that the lawn in mown to a crisp neat finish, the plants are watered, at least twice a day, (tomatoes doing nicely in the cold frame) and the whole house sparklingly clean. Well that would be the case if Helen had not just bought a new games…