This morning, I came to tidy away the nativity figures from the top of our (now mostly eaten) Christmas cake. Mary and Joseph are missing. They were not edible . so I do hope no one nibbled them. I interrogated the most most likely suspect but under pressure he only yawned and looked at me... Continue Reading →
A story of ‘lost and found’ and coming home
I feel I ought to break my recent long blog silence with an explanation: we have moved house. It has been overwhelming. We moved out of the family home in which our children had grown from age 9 and 11 to beyond the point where they'd left home for uni and then into the big... Continue Reading →
A call to gardening? Surely not me Lord?
It's very, very rare that I feel an urgent need to do some gardening... over my lifetime I could probably count such occasions on the fingers of one hand. So why, last Friday morning pre-dawn, was I on my knees on a piece of cardboard in the Vicarage garden scraping away at the cold earth... Continue Reading →