February 2023 blog

Reflections of Lent   Dear Friends I wonder what the month of February means for you? Perhaps like me you like pancake day (or Shrove Tuesday) which this year falls on February 21st, the start of Lent, the weeks leading up to Easter. Pancakes with lemon and sugar...

January 2023 blog

God – our helper   Dear All, It is good at the end of the year to remember to give thanks. It is also important to look forward and to place our future in God’s hands.  This January we can do both. I look back and give thanks for what I’ve seen...

November Blog

You are welcome   Dear All, It’s that season again. I wonder what you make of these days leading up to Christmas? For the children, no doubt, excitement; for the adults often a degree of fearful anticipation. Just so many things to do, so little time to do...

September Blog

  Dear All, I write two days after the death of our renowned and beloved Queen Elizabeth II and the day after the Accession of King Charles III. The 8th September 2022 will be forever marked a landmark date in the history of our nation and the Commonwealth....

June Blog

The Waiting Room     Dear All, Usually I reserve a theme of ‘waiting’ to the Advent season, just before Christmas.  Somehow, though, this seems an apt moment to renew this theme, at the mid-point in the year. We have waited a long time, it seems, to...

May Blog

Dear All, Occasionally when on an ordinary walk, I come across the extraordinary.  Do you find this as well?  An ordinary dog walk one autumn morning on the edge of Kings Weston ancient fort, and I stopped dead in my tracks.  A piece of art figured itself on my...