tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331480782012-02-09T11:16:03.486ZDisconnected jottings by the Rector of "The Saints" in rural north-east Suffolk, England.Saintly Ramblingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348972142475605435noreply@blogger.comBlogger7571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33148078.post-82770458681782969352012-02-08T19:41:00.002Z2012-02-08T19:46:42.421Z

Thankfully I haven't had to venture out today - the snow and ice hasn't melted at all and the pavements and roads are treacherous in places. The birds swoop down for the food I put out and the fresh water in the bird bath, which begins to freeze over almost immediately. Over the past week I've seen Dunnock, Long-tailed tits, Blue tits, Great tits, a Green Woodpecker, Collared Doves, Wood

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Saturday 4th February, and the overnight snow arrived as forecast. I woke to a white world.Managing to negotiate the snowy country lanes I drove to the first service at Rumburgh where there were 5 of us. We celebrated on a card table in the tower room as it was warmer! At the second service at St Peter South Elmham there were 2 of us, and as the other person doesn't receive communion we said a

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Best friends graduated from medical school at the same time and decided that, in spite of two different specialties, they would open a practice together to share office space and personnel.Dr. Smith was the psychiatrist and Dr. Jones was the proctologist; they put up a sign reading: “Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors.”The town council was livid and insisted they change it.So, the

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The year of the Water Dragon ... which is me! What is uncanny is how accurate this depiction is of me first thing in the morning as I emerge from the bath!

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... where there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.My laptop has died.Or to be more precise, the motherboard has died.I turned it on - several lines of DOS script flashed across the top of the screen, and then it turned itself off.I turned it on, and couldn't get past the initial Toshiba flash screen. The keyboard was dead, and so was the power button. The only way I could turn

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.. the New Year it is enter-ed.Then let us now our sins downtread,and joyfully all appear.Let's merry be this day,and let us now both sport and play:Hang grief, cast care away!God send you a Happy New Year!And now with New year's gifts each friendunto the other they do send:God grant we may all our lives amend,And that the truth may appear.Now, like the snake, your skincast off, of evil thoughts

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... it's only 4 days after Christmas!

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This was taken at home in Brighton one Christmastime over 50 years ago - one of the rare winters when snow fell in the town. I could do with that balaclava now ....

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This article setting out an alternative path to unity to the proposed Anglican Covenant is well worth the reading and deserves consideration by all - maybe especially by those who so loudly call for the agreement to be signed and implemented.

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One of the more crowded of the nativity scences I've come across, and the more you look, the more you see. Just what is that small child pointing at on the extreme left of the picture, curling round the legs of the buxom woman in blue? And then one of the sheep brought by the shepherds lies in the foreground, legs tied as a sacrifice, prefiguring the crucifixion. Joseph is being pushed into

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Ages since I posted anything, and in the intervening days I have had my pre-Christmas mid-week break, part of which was spent back on the south coast meeting up with friends for a meal and to exchange seasonal cards. In reality it was a reunion of the owners of the long-closed independant Munnery's Wine Stores in Kemp Town, Brighton, where I worked on and off for about 11 years - them and other

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This reply arrived today:Thank you for your email and apologies for not coming back to you sooner, I have been out of the office.I hope the following explanation helps! The sausage is make with 80% pork in the raw recipe, but the ingredient declaration reflects the product once it has been cooked. The 1st cook which we do before we send into the Coop gives us 10% cook loss and the 2nd cook in

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I have contacted the Company and asked them to explain their maths. No answer as yet.

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The builders turned up just after 9.00 a.m. arriving as I was driving off to go and say Morning Prayer at another village. Leaving them to it I returned about an hour later to some good news and some bad news. The good news is that a new shower has been fitted in the bathroom; and the bad news ... that there appears to be a fault in the solar converter unit in the loft which will need a

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... who sang "It's getting better all the time - can't get no worse", the saga continues.This morning (damp carpets still drip-drying in my neighbours old wooden garage) a young man who looked not much older than about 12 unexpectedly arrived from the builders to "Commission" my solar installation. Having seen his identity card I let him in, delaying my exit to the shops as he said he simply had

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In the Fawlty Towers episode "The Builders", Basil hires the Irish builder Mr. O'Reilly to carry out some internal alterations to the hotel. He manages to block up the door to the dining room and move another to the base of the stairs. When his worknmanship, or lack of it, is commented upon, he asserts that "a lick of paint here, a lick of paint there" will sort it all out. Sybil Fawlty is

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I returned yesterday from the 2011 Inclusive Church conference that took place at the Hayes Conference centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire. Seventy people (now there's a New Testament number on which to reflect ....) from the Inclusive Church network gathered to share in worship, listen to different speakers, hear real life stories, be amazed at a magic show and, of course, congregate at the bar. The

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I'm sure these two, or their friends, were in the garden last night!

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I bought myself the DreamWorks animated movie "The Prince of Egypt" today. It had this classification warning on the reverse of the box. I think we ought to campaign for it to be pasted onto every copy of the Bible in our churches.

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Fireworks and a grand fire in the garden of the Old Vicarage here in the village. Parsnip soup, hot dogs, hash browns, duck pancake rolls, chocolate brownies, gingerbread men, and red wine. It was a very pleasant evening.

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Sir Jimmy Savile, entertainer, broadcaster, and generally all-round good guy, has died peacefully at his home, aged 84. On his BBC TV Show "Jim'll Fix It" he made dreams come true for so many people. May all his dreams now be realised.

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... but don't go to extremes when you turn back your clocks.

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At least he'll be in good company on Craggy Island.

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A viewpoint well-worth the read on the Rosie Fiore blog

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Now available. £5 plus postage.Limited supply.

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Tuesday evening, 19th October, and the golden sun streams down Knightsbridge to illuminate the world-famous frontage of Harrods. I ventured inside for a wander around its ground floor Food Halls, always a place to view instead of to buy, especially at their prices, though my next-day’s foray into Fortnum & Mason showed them to be even more expensive!Wednesday morning, 20th October, and a walk

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... that it's been a busy couple of weeks, with piles of paper on my desk that have needed to be dealt with, but much of which has been waiting for responses from other people before it can be taken any further.And now I have a fortnight off ... and on this, the first day of my holiday, I have phoned the Archdeacon to arrange the Commissioning of a Benefice Elder; dealt with the Diocese over a

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October 1st, 9.30 a.m. And the vicarage garden is a delight.

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... with morning mists and unseasonably hot days ...

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It's no secret that I am not in favour of the moves to bring in the Anglican Covenant. Maybe this post helps explain some of the reasons why.

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... and gone to heaven ....I've just found this page with the Penguin SF covers .....I need to go back to my shelves and look at what I've got!

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In response to the comment in the previous post, I have delved into my bookshelves and found my copy of "The Wind from Nowehre" by J G Ballard, and as I expected, the cover illustration is by Alan Aldridge. The book was published in 1967, and it's a picture that screams that decade. These were the days when London's Post Office Tower was still open to visitors and the revolving restaurant at

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I have recently been looking at the work of Carl Wilton who was a cover artist for Pan and Great Pan paperbacks in the 1950's, especially his illustrations for their series of WWII memoirs. I find them very evocative images, and I have now posted up a page showing the volumes that I own. More will be added as I discover (and buy) them!Carl Wilton

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We haven't started our Harvest festival services yet, and Plough Sunday is not until January !!!!

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I haven't ventured into public print with my rant. Instead what is needed is clearer written directions for those wanting to celebrate their marriages in our Benefice churches as to what they may and may not do in regard to moving furniture, hassocks, seat cushions, lecterns, bibles, small wall pictures, bookcases, carpets, tables and large calor gas heaters and accompanying bottles, to make the

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I'm building up to a rant ..... which may well be dissipated by the time I come to write the "Tailpiece" for our September Benefice magazine. And then again it may not ......

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Have been to a rather spiffing Postcrad Fair today over at Godmanchester, near Huntingdon. Spent much less than I anticipated, so that made the day even better!

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My main PC is back, and having uploaded over 238 Windows updates (aaagh!) it's still running. All that was changed was the SATA cable. We keep fingers and other limbs crossed.......

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The First Sunday of August and the opportunity to celebrate the agriculturl feast of Lammas - not to be confused with the Wiccan or New Age variety. The morning services will include a blessing of bread, and be followed by a bread and cheese lunch here at the Parsonage. Three different types of bread and about seven varities of cheese, plus chutney. Mmmmmmmnn.

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The new hard disk is installed and it's all restored to factory settings.It would be even better if it had solved the problem of the intermittent loss of display and response from the pc itself, but shortly after it had started running there was a click and the whole system crashed again.The choice of culprit seems to be narrowing down to a fault on the motherboard.And that requires a trip to

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A new hard drive is installed, and is presently being uploaded with the "Restore to factory settings" disk.We have yet to see if the infant lives and breathes and starts to run about.

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It's not the graphics card .......... ....It's the hard drive.

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My main computer is now in the process of being "rebuilt" after having re-set it to the original factory settings. These contain a lot of dross that is unwanted, time-limited demo programs which were never used, and old versions of those I need, and which have all had to be updated and re-registered. There were also over 130 important Microsoft updates to download and install.Which should mean

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A major crash on my main study computer has meant that I have had to restore it to the Factory Settings. Fortunately most of my files are stored on a separate drive and have remained intact. However some minor stuff has been lost, and I shall now have to re-install numerous programs and shortcuts. You can guess what I shall be doing most of tomorrow!

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I came across this picture on the net which stirred memories. As I grew up in the eastern end of Brighton "The Continentale" cinema changed from showing "normal" films to those frequented by gentlemen in long raincoats, usually for the matinee showing. I went and saw the brilliant film "If" there soon after it first came out in 1968, but even by then this was a rare mainstream film to be

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According to an article in today's "Guardian" which has been widely blogged, the Church of England is doomed since in 20 years time the ageing congregations will have died off and there'll be two little old ladies, a decrepit priest and an altar boy left.What a load of tosh. When I was growing up in a poorly-attended Brighton church in the late 1950's and early 60's the cry was exactly the same.

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Crucifixion, Resurrection, BVM, and St Margaret of Antioch.

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This last week I spent a couple of days down in London in order to visit this current exhibition at the British Museum.It was well worth seeing, and if there are still indulgences to be obtained from viewing relics of the saints, then I must have gained a few more years off purgatory. The reliquaries were mostly magnificent, and the exhibition was well laid out, taking you on a time-line from

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This is the window of which the stonework was the gift of King Edward VII when he was still a young Prince of Wales. It was plain glass - the pictorial stained glass was given later.

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"Put your hand there! He's kicking!"(Part of the east window of our only Benefice church dedicated to John the Baptist)

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That's the way to do it!Now, where's the Benefice umbrellino?

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It will go with my white and gold chasuble as designed by Slabbinck for the visit of Pope to Belgium in May 1985.My birthday is August 3rd !

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On looking out of the window late on Sunday evening.

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Writing in the New Statesman, the archbishop of Canterbury has issued a broadside against the coalition government, claiming it is forcing through "radical policies for which no one voted".Hmmm, a bit like the Anglican Covenant then? That's something to which he is dedicated forcing upon the Anglcan Communion whether we want it or not, and with no proper opportunity for the bums on the seats to

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A "friend" in Germany sent me this link. Pass the bucket, I think I'm going to be very very ill. (Apparently this young lad is now an attorney!)

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On the Six o'clock BBC News this evening ....Anyone care to buy the Children's Minister a dictionary so that she can educate whoever put up that display behind her?.

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On Memorial Day 1994 I was fortunate enough to be part of a group from Beaminster in Dorset to attend the 50th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings at the town of St. James in Normandy. Beaminster and St. James were "twinned", and as a Team Vicar in that parish I was asked to be the church's representative at the event.The main Act of Remembrance took place at the large American War

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Acts of the Apostles 1: 4-12.4. And lo, He saith unto them, Stay put in the city, something not altogether insignificant is about to happen.5. And behold, He seemed thereafter to change his mind and led them out of the city, unto Bethany, which is an high place indeed.6. And the disciples did nod and wink at one another exceedingly, for they knew that strange and holy things alway happened unto

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A major rural funeral today for a young man in his 40's. The church, our largest in the Benefice, was packed to overflowing, and we estimate 400+ people in attendance. They were not only standing outside, but also had filled the choir and were standing in the sanctuary around the altar. An individual service in that he wasn't a church attender, and before his death had picked 5 pieces of 1970'

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This Guardian article is important reading for all Church of England people. It seems that there might actually be "something rotten in the state of Denmark" after all, and it's not their banning of Marmite.

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Browsing through French property sites again I came across this rather fine example of the Gallic desire to wallpaper every surface in their home. I'm just not sure how you're supposed to light the fire.... or how you get out once the door is closed ....

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Well, it’s over three hours past the 6.00 p.m. deadline for the Rapture to take place across the U.K and it doesn’t seem to have happened. No earthquake, no fiery rain, no dead rising from their graves (unless you’re watching “The Walking Dead” on TV catch-up, or a DVD like “Shaun of the Dead”). It’s all rather an anti-climax, and it means I still have to preach at two services tomorrow morning

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But as Von Smallhausen merrily shouted whilst marching across Nouvion town square wearing a sandwich board proclaiming that message .... "A little bit of what you fancy does you good!"

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... for 'tis a Croquet weekend, and whilst all is quiet on this Blog, the sounds from the garden are far from subdued. I have warned the neighbours and apologised for the language!

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'Tis the Archdeacon's Visitation this evening in nearby Beccles at which she will swear in, or at, our churchwardens for another year. I already know of 3 who won't be there from these parishes, so I shall have to stand in her stead at some forthcoming Sunday service and administer the oaths on her behalf. And since the Archdeacon already does it on behalf of the Bishop, I really am at the

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... it's not so much "Who are you all?" It's more a question of why on earth do you bother to read this drivel?

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Out if idle curiosity I have just clicked on the Stats button for this Blog, and then on Viewers. The following graphic shows how many times these pages have been accessed since I began posting 0n 22nd August 2006. Not a vast number in the grand scheme of Blogging, but the spread across the northern hemisphere is interesting. Who are you in Moldova? (And where is it?) Who is it in Iran who

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You have to give them credit for trying ....This is a new angle - not Nigerian Lottery this time!From the desk of Mr Jayson AhernCanadian Customs and Border ProtectionAttn: Honourable Beneficiarywe hereby bring to your notice that a consignment which is to be delivered at yourresidence by a diplomat had been stopped by us. This is a security measureput in place by Canadian Government to check

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One is dated 11th September 2001, whilst the other is dated 2nd May 2011.The blogger at Dating God: Franciscan Spirituality for the 21st Century reminds his readers of some Scripture ( Proverbs 24:17-20: Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble, or else the LORD will see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from them.) and writes:As I

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Ah - a Bank Holiday - and what more traditional way to spend part of it than to do some decorating? My guest toilet cum boiler room has today received a fresh coat of white paint, though how long it will stay that way with the boiler seemingly chucking out a film of grey soot every time it fires up is another matter..

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It's been a fun day of celebration. No Street Party in this village, but a "Safari" with a gaggle of adults and children moving from one house to another to partake of liquid refreshment and snacks. I hosted at 1.30 p.m. just after the fly-past over Buckingham Palace had been televised, and we enjoyed glasses of "Pimm's", white bread cucumber sandwiches (with the crusts cut off), prawn

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Very early, just after the sun had risen, they went to the garden ....

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The Raising of Lazarus as depicted in an unattributed oil painting gifted to one of our Benefice churches back in the 1890's where it hangs above the font, presumably symbolic of new life. I remain unconvinced of its suitability in that position.

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... with the extraction of my bottom left wisdom tooth ... just numb.... I was offered it as a souvenir .... I declined. The tooth fairy hasn't called for years.:)

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Not the Marx Bros variety .....These were taking up valuable parking space in Halesworth this morning. I don't think they'd paid. Who do I call?

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SCENE I. A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.Thunder. Enter the three Witches First Witch Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.Third Witch Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.First Witch Round about the cauldron go;In the poison'd entrails throw.Toad, that under cold stoneDays and nights has thirty-oneSwelter'd venom sleeping got,Boil thou

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That's one down ... just 10 more to go..

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"This has been Middle Britain speaking," said the TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber. Well, maybe some of it, Mr. Barber, but not this bit of it over here in Suffolk. This part of "Middle Britain" and its families view the chaos that took place in London today with distaste. It's claimed that small groups hijacked the main march and broke away to carry out their illegal activities, but the

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The second Lent Lunch is upon me, and so tonight has been spent setting out the tables, which will seat 16 people, place-mats, cutlery, napkins, the cheeseboards and condiments, and finding enough chairs.Tomorrow's choices will be Sweet potato and vegetable with coriander, or Mushroom with tarragon. Served with a warm bread roll, and the followed by a small selection of cheeses, rounded off with

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Faced with the devastation we've been witnessing on our TV screens and in our newspapers these last few days, we can find ourselves at loss for words to describe our reactions. Here's someone who has managed to piece together their thoughts and faith in a comprehensive and compelling way.

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The vicarage ran out of heating oil at the start of February, and I've been hanging on before ordering because this village has a buying Consortium, and if I had ordered my fuel independently I would not only have missed out on their reduced price, but also lowered the total order for the rest of the group. So it's been electric heaters since then, and heating each room as required. The

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From winter's decay new life springs forth.

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My trip back to Sarum College wasn't a holiday - I was on a short course entitled "Infancy Narratives of Matthew, Luke and James" which looked at the various accounts of the birth of Jesus and how they have influenced the ways in which classical artists have portrayed the event. Taking the apocryphal Gospel of James as our starting point on Monday afternoon, we looked at, amongst others, works

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The cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral are currently hosting a sound and light exhibition by the artist Bruce Munro. On two sides of the quadrangle the cloister walk is filled with 69 glowing towers made from 15,000 recyclable 2 litre water bottles which are illuminated inside with fibre-optic cables. The colours change to a soundtrack of recorded choral music, and it's quite an experience to

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...and I've just had a pint of Badger's Best Bitter in The New Inn.

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... for a short course on Art and the Incarnation narratives of Matthew, Luke and the Gospel of James.Treading the old familiar corridors of my training ground and surrounded by ghosts .... DN and his gin parties for his anglo-catholic buddies, Pinky & Perky, JC puffing his pipe out of the attic window, TJ fiddling with sliders and volume controls in the basement, Cyril the caretaker, BP who

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King Lear Act III. Scene II. Lear speaks: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!It's getting rough out there ... nothing like northern Scotland has had to put up with in the last 24 hours with gusts of 130 mph on the top of the Highlands, nor the people of Queensland, but the windows are

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This communique was released by the Primates meeting in Dublin following the murder of the Ugandan gay-rights activist, David Kato.Quite how these "leaders" can issue such a statement when the Anglican church continues to persecute and sideline homosexual and lesbian Christians is quite beyond my understanding. Possibly that's one reason I shall never become a Bishop. And more to the point,

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It's Burns Night again, and the neeps and tatties are mashed and the haggis sitting to one side waiting to be "nuked". The mushroom and whisky gravy is also made. Lang may your lum reek! (and it probably will after this!)Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang's my arm.

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An excellent commentary on the recent Christian hoteliers court judgement in today's Guardian.

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