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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Whilst walking quietly along to an internment (observing not doing) I was accosted by a delightful lady who wanted to know where the friary was – well, I told her, but of course she saw the collar – oh reverend, would you just… …half an hour of life story, of trials and tribulations, you would imagine she was the most wealthy – unlucky woman in the world … and so I was late and didn’t catch my lift. Arriving home the phone went – A lady was dying in hospital and the family wanted a priest, well I had to do. Strange how these things happen!

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Today a few of us were interviewed for the local paper – on how we saw the future of the church. Any ordinands dream really, especially as we were’nt being asked if we would close churches, something positive from the media, well, we hope, the paper hasn’t been published yet. In all the talk of being radical, looking outside of conventional church concerns for the future and perhaps being prepared for a future without quite so many buildings… the Gay issue raised its head, tentatively, but the response, (not from me) was for sensitivity and acceptance of all people. If I didn’t have to go off to a lecture that moment I would have qualified that statement to mean acceptance no matter who or what people are and an end to the bigotry and culture of judgement that seems to prevail in the arm of the church which does not accept that gay people are human!! Of course, this wasn’t helped by the lecture I had gone too. As an ice breaker into the subject we had to stand in the corner we agreed with – yes – no – sometimes – dont know. One question, no prizes!! ‘Should Gay [...]

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