Monthly Archives: July 2007

The nights are drawing in. It is now almost dark by eleven pm.

….with a laugh in the bath….. (Thanks to alpha benn) [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1Id9o-HKU]

This poem echoes something of the Christian experience of resurrection and the hope of renewal, but I am not sure how much darkness is a necessary requisite for spiritual growth. The best I can say of the hard experiences in … Continue reading →

Excellent news – a brace of plumbers arrived at shortly after eight o’clock this morning, necessitating very quick showers before they got started. All is going well, but one of them is off to play Shinty this afternoon.

Let’s hope the plumber works over the weekend.  Otherwise the building project gets held up even further. One would think that it would be easy to be patient when it has taken a year from quote to work being done…. … Continue reading →

The insulation and polythene wrapping is now being inserted into the extension. I had no idea that there were going to be so many layers to the sandwich. The main problem is keeping Misty away. She has taken a great … Continue reading →

An abundance of meadowsweet in the riverside meadow today. It is one of the prettiest and most fragrant of our wildflowers. Not so nice on the nature front: the sparrow-hawk is making regular trips over the garden for his/her dinner. … Continue reading →

In between the showers. It is helpful to remember that the green comes from all the rain we have had of late!

The bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev Graham Dow is reported as saying The floods that have devastated swathes of the country are God’s judgment on the immorality and greed of modern society, At least, so says an article in … Continue reading →

Sometimes…..words don’t seem enough. Sometimes…..anger rises up fast. Sometimes…..depression follows on its heels. Sometimes…..hope springs up eternal. Thank you God for sometimes….