August is the month for dusting off the jam pan. So far the apples have started landing regularly on the lawn. Rather than waste these early fruits they have been transformed into ‘Spiced Apple Jelly’ with just a hint of the old favourite – Chilli! Without a greenhouse at the moment the chillies are slow and few, but the next project, since there are apples a plenty on the tree, is an apple press, it seems the best way to construct one is with a bottle jack and some stout timber, both of which are lying around in the shed! Whether cider is attempted or not rather depends on the juice – it might get drunk too quickly!
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Art & Sandwiches

Firstly Sandwiches, not that the food theme is anything surprising for me, but I had a distinct thought for sandwiches during tonights service…

Secondly, Art. In two parts, the first is about a Welsh Sculptor, John Meirion Morris www.johnmeirionmorris.org/ His art is inspirational, and I wrote a reflection on this a few years ago during an exhibition of his work. Finding this writing reminded me of how intesely moving his art, the space and the music was!

The second part is art by me, in response to Kathryn’s offer of art…

The first five people to respond to this post will receive some form of art, by me, for them. I make no guarantees about quality or type, only of individuality.

There’s a catch, of course, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own space too!

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Chocolat

There is a lent course called ‘Christ and the Chocolaterie’, having not looked at it I cannot tell if what I thought while watching the film has been said before or not… But anyway, here goes. Chocolat – a beautifully acted and scripted romantic film – but also so overtly religious, how could anything useful come of it! Ignore the Catholic rhetoric, the pompous, yet frightened town Mayor controlling both priest and people and focus rather on the tempestuous chocolaterie opened just in time for lent. The devil has come to town. The words almost cry off the screen. Yet, not the devil, but Christ in the strangers guise. It is she who gives and old woman life in her last days. She to whom the landlords wife turns when all is falling around her feet. She who re-ignites passion in a dull marriage. She who invites outsiders when no-one from the village will entertain them. She to whom all turn in their darkest moments and are transformed, (all be it with chocolate!) into lightness and life. What else was the mission of Jesus.

August

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