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Last Sunday…

Last Sunday…

Dutifully looking up the readings for my last Sunday in the current parish, (Luke 13: 31-35) I was astonished to read the short passage – how apt for one leaving… The I noticed I was in John, not Luke.  Uncanny though, how appropriate some of the words from John were!! Little children, I am...
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Just Gardening

I was gardening.  Just that.  Strimming the overgrown grass, revealing the flowers that had been planted along the labyrinth path in the churchyard.  It always had a queer sort of fascination with the locals, seeing someone tending something new, something unexpected and many would stop and chat, poking good humoured fun or questioning why. ...
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Any fool can make things complicated

E.F. Schumacher said that: “Any fool can make things complicated, but it requires a genius to make things simple.” Satish Kumar quoted this in Resurgence Then went on to say that “Simplicity requires less ego and more imagination, less complication and more creativity, less glamour and more gratitude, less attention to appearance and more...
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Random College Entry

  • End of term … again!

    Well, the end of term is nigh, one more college Eucharist, one more set of ye olde hymns, oh and one carol service taken largely from Candles and Conifers This morning I had that parents doting dream, the nativity play. Although it was in Welsh (obviously!) I didn’t understand the majority of it, now you would be forgiven for thinking that this was because I cannot understand Welsh, well I can enough to get the meaning of the words! It was titled Roced Sion Corn, (Santa’s Rocket) There was a union of reindeer (on strike) a tedi factory who supplied the rocket, Bob the Builder to fix the Rocket. The three kings made a brief appearance at the beginning saying something about forgotten presents. It was the most bizzare display. Eventually the random singing and whispered or shouted lines came to the climax when Mary and Joseph, two extremely timid reception class children came on. The Epiphany arrived before the shepherds (with presents) and the whole assembly sang the song which had been sung round the house for the past three weeks, Tweet, Tweet, tweet meddai yr Robin (Tweet Tweet Tweet said the robin). Obviously the children’s favourite song!! But [...]

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