Category: other writing

  • Lament and Rejoice

    My offering for tomorrow, reflection on a year past and hope for a brighter one to come! To lament a leaf… How empty stands the winter tree, once with a canopy full of leaves. How bare you are without adornments, No green covering to shade and protect. You wept bitterly in the early autumn sun,…

  • Halloween

    Well last year I was away, so this was the first halloween in the new house, always an interesting time with plenty of local children around… Rather than the usual careful explanation at the door of all hallows eve, finally giving in and giving them sweets as usual, I decided a more pratical approach might…

  • More Greenbelt thoughts

    Still digging through the pile of notes I made after Greenbelt. I think the comment which sparked this off was by Richard Burridge, but it might not have been!! Reverse the Lord’s Prayer, what would that sound like?  Not the words, but the meaning.  I remember the comment, and the first line, however, he didn’t…

  • How not to beat the rising fuel costs…

    First, ensure your mobile phone is low or empty of cash. Second, travel to a random destination – for instance – to collect the church fairtrade stall goods. Third,  return home by a little known, obscure route, known only to yourself, especially on roads not marked on any map that is not designed for anyone…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The good death of the Church of England

    The last post of the Church of England; an Evensong in every Cathedral in the country. The faithful remnant, curious onlookers, those who had not been to church much or even at all were there, to say I was there at the end. Clergy flock to the services, the quires are packed, there is a…

  • Hugs

    A college friend and I were wondering, some time ago, if it was possible to mail a hug.. (I’m talking proper hugs here, not the type where you end up winded by someone trying hard, but not quite getting the knack of it.) Now, short of packing yourself up, hopping along to the postoffice and,…