STOP PRESS: vote for this product please follow this link http://www.virginmediabusiness.co.uk/pitch-to-rich/start-up/plushiemorphs/ He's arrived - my very own 'hero dog'! I know I already have a living, breathing one in the form of Bobby but my new pal is a lot of fun, does clever transforming tricks and doesn't eat as much. Here he is... Continue Reading →
Of Dung-beetles and stars
This morning I read something that made me stop and say 'WOW... just WOW' "Dung beetles use the milky way to navigate" How AMAZING is that? Seriously? A tiny little insect that spends its entire life rolling around in poo is so deeply committed to moving in a straight line, it uses the stars to... Continue Reading →
Do your memories hold you? Or do you hold your memories?
I have just 'reclaimed my life' from the loft and found two things of very great value to me that I thought had been lost. These are the last two lost items that I feared had inadvertently gone to the tip when we moved last December. My joy and my house now feels complete! (See... Continue Reading →
A poem is like a chocolate…
but it is better than a chocolate... because you can eat it more than once. Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy is my current favourite. (You can find it out there in the blog world in plenty of places so I will signpost you to it but I'm not sure where I stand on reproducing it... Continue Reading →
Why bad stuff happens
I've been really poorly for about 2 weeks and for about 6 days during that time I had no voice. Keeping silent and staying in bed gave me far too much time to think and worry (bad) and lots of time to read (good). I've blogged about the first of two books I read and... Continue Reading →
Sunrise with Smith and Hopkins
An 'ordinary' morning last week somewhere over Warwickshire: Immortal, Invisible God only wise, In light inaccesible hid from our eyes... Most Blessed, most glorious, Oh, help us to see Tis only the splendour of light hideth thee' (Walter Smith - hymn writer, well said Walter) Or as Gerald Manley Hopkins put it 'The world is... 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 →
How I’m feeling about arriving!
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 →