The hedgerows are teeming with life, most of it edible, we have so far (apart from the tree load of apples which our garden supplies) blackberries – loads, hedge garlic (still prolific) raspberry leaves for tea, haws for Haw-sin sauce and a few other bits and pieces. In a few weeks the elderberries will be ready, the damsons up the lanes will start to turn and it will be all hands to the preserving pan, if only the apples would stop falling long enough for us to pick some to put away!! The wheat is in, but not processed quite yet, it will have to be milled soon, ready for the beginning of October and the coming of the inevitable Harvest Thanksgivings. The Cat has started complaining about the weather, but it’s not quite time for the log burner, which reminds me to call the log man and have...
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- Parish Walks
- On Films
- The St Mike’s Archive
- Writing
- Lent One: About a Boy – Will Freeman and the Wilderness
- Lent two – Marcus and his cross to bear
- On the sofa with Will Freeman
- The Unfinished Story
- Where your Treasure is
- Whose Eyes?
- Essay Feedback
- Eh Jesus… for Passover
- Lament and Rejoice
- Angels Wings
- Joseph on the road
- Our Daily Advent
- Choose Life: Iona Student’s Week 2006
- Love Actually: Student’s week on Iona 2005
- The spirituality of smoking
- Umeed JustGiving
