Lent One: The walls that contain us.

Well Lent has begun.  40 days of fasting of sackcloth and ashes.  Are we enjoying it? – don’t answer that, I really don’t want to know!!  For those who have given something up for Lent this year, you’ve had four days already since Ash Wednesday, so 36 to go and remember that Sundays don’t count.  Shouldn’t say that should I?   Personally that seems a little bit like cheating, especially if you have become vegetarian during Lent, with Sundays not counting – nice roast dinner. hmmmm…  not looking in any particular direction… Films are always for me an endless source...

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Less dust, more Glory

I reflected, (much to everyone’s amusement) last week on dust. I don’t want to repeat that experience, but I do want to go back to the beginning of the journey that I related and do it all again.  Perhaps we missed something at the...

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Dust – Creation Sunday

Dust  –  Creation Sunday

Ok so I have been reading Philip Pullman recently his Dark Materials Trilogy!  And ‘The Golden Compass’ based on the first of the books, ‘Northern Lights’ was an engaging film, however ‘Dust’ is given an altogether different status in the books and it turns...

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February

And winter is now settling in!  Though the trees have arrived, Bardsey apple among them, the ground is perhaps just soft enough to plant along with brooms and bamboo and other such tree delights.  Seeds are sprouting on the windowsill – the promise of...

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January 14th

January 14th

Beaten only by the Steak and Ale Pie that followed it!

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January 13th

January 13th

Could be anywhere!

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Random College Entry

  • Nostalgia

    “See you back at the ranch” Such an innocuous comment after a game of squash you would think, not one to inspire a weekend of thought and nostalgia, but that it did. It so happens that my previous squash partner of 10 (yes that’s TEN) years standing or so used to say that at the end of almost every game. It also didn’t help that it was a particularly sunny afternoon and the best times were spent sat on a bench outside the office with tea and a rollie watching the world go by and chatting with all who came by. To the casual observer no work was being done, it might even have been suggested that we were ‘lazing’ but in reality it was on that bench that the world was put to rights, programes came to life, films discussed new projects organised and life generally was good.

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