Good in Parts

this year were many and varied. The solid, material ones included some rather stunning ear-rings, which make me worry that I might actually ...

My diary this morning looked really innocuous...Morning Prayer, Home Communion, a bit of desking, another nativity then hospital visiting be...

I've blogged more than once before about the rather wonderful school at the top of the hill (not, sadly, the same hill which gives Churc...

Rejoice in the Lord always That’s the theme of this Sunday…the midpoint of Advent. When in times past the seasonal emphasis was very much on...

You might have gathered that I'm a bit stuck with pre-festival deskyness, at the moment - so it's been a bit harder to raise my eyes...

t The obvious problem with launching any sort of blogging series is that you create the expectation that you will actually continue it...It ...

Busy weekend, with lovely C staying, the usual pattern of worship, & a couple of trips across to Gloucester Hospital to visit a poorly p...

One of those weeks when recycling seems by far the best option..so this is a reworking of something I preached in my training parish....Sorr...

Sally has been reading Stephen Cottrell's " Do nothing - Christmas is Coming !" and this has inspired her Friday Five Five t...

Mostly for the benefit of Mary Beth, who has managed to get through life thus far without encountering the wonder that was the Citroen 2CV.....

At the moment I'm struggling with an identity crisis! Clouseau, the  Citroen C3, comfortably "worn in" via vicarage gate pos...

Knocked out by the echoes of the Magnificat in this morning's readings at the Eucharist... How about this? For he has brought low    ...

I don't get to choose the themes for Assembly at Valley Church School (though every now and then I jettison the official timetable when ...

much laughter and friendship at PTA committee meeting looking back at the Advent Fayre and forward to (what have I done???!) the two school...

splendid to spend time with community-minded, eco-Pagan friend (yes, this IS Stroud, peoples...) who is warm and wonderful & makes me la...

In case you'd failed to notice, I'm very strongly ENFP - so today's signs are very much about relationships. Our Recessional a...

A busy busy 1st weekend of Advent...On Sunday our gospel reminded us that when all sorts of wild and terrifying things are going on in the ...

My to do list for the coming week looks something like this (which is why I'm a great fan of Justin's book though I need to do some...

If a picture is worth 1000 words, I wonder what we’d learn from picturing our readings today…There is the high drama of apocalyptic vision...

On Thursday, the Feast of Hilda of Whitby, FabBishop invited the clergywomen of the diocese to meet together, to worship and to talk through...