Sheila Bridge Blog
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 →
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 →
One month ago today was our final Sunday at St Matthew and St Oswald's. This evening in just a few hours I will put into my new post St Peter and St John. I'm trembling in my boots just thinking about it! So, by way of preparation, over the last few weeks I have been... Continue Reading →
Today is our last Sunday at St Matthew's and St Oswald's church where I have been a curate for the last 4 years but a worshipping member for 18 years prior to that. This is how we looked just a few months before we arrived Here we are now (this time in front of a... Continue Reading →
'Incredibly helpful but ultimately hopeless' - would be how I would sum up this book in 5 words. It is fascinating and intriguing and thought-provoking. It's the story of a 37 year old brain scientist who had a massive stroke at the age of 37. A huge haemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain... Continue Reading →
My mother is an enthusiastic charity shopper. One side-effect of this is that she has ALOT of clothes. Every now and again she has a good clear out and I am often the chosen recipient. Oh joy! Anyone whose mother has ever attempted to pass on clothes knows that this is not always a blessing.... Continue Reading →
Paint is nasty stuff. It's okay on your walls but when you've done the decorating and there's still a third of the tin left what do you do? You shove it in the shed/back of the garage/under the stairs and forget about it? A few weeks ago David excavated a virtual paint pot mountain which... Continue Reading →
Last week I heard a sermon on the parable of the watchful servants. (Luke 12:35-38). The story goes like this: the servants of a household stay up till 3 or 4 in the morning so as not to be caught 'napping' by the master of the household. The traditional interpretation is 'Don't get caught napping' or,... Continue Reading →
'When you come to a fork in the road, take it' Yogi Brennan. This brilliant, pithy piece of wisdom has been hugely sustaining for me over the last week or so. I only came across it last week on a retreat day but it seems to sum up much of the journey I have been... Continue Reading →
As promised here is a quick summary of 'how' I set up this bike ride and it is also an award page for all the lovely, lovely places and people I found to visit, meet, eat and stay with. The route: this was purchased from http://www.bikeadventures.co.uk/ and they made all the bookings for the B and... Continue Reading →
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