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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Cantemus

Cantemus is a chamber choir, they are based in Wales and sang in the college chapel at the end of term.
The music they produced was fantastic, it really touched the soul. Something about unaccompanied voices is so enchanting it grips the imagination and forces you out of yourself. This was especially evident in one piece they sang. It was O Magnum Mysterium by a contemporary composer who I had not heard of Morten Lauridsen. The quality of the singing and the musical ability to delve deep within the person listening was magical. I can thoroughly recommend you go and search it out!! It made my Christmas…

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child-Like sense of Wonder

We must be like a child… Something like this is in the bible somewhere. This mornings reflection was on Romans: nothing can separate us from the love of God What? not even homosexuality? You better believe it! Whether the implication of the words of St. Paul have dawned on the Fundamentalist Evangelical church I know not, but I cannot help thinking it takes only the brain of a child to think up this simple equation…

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