Month: April 2018

From time to time I come across quotes that I just fall in love with instantly and this is one of those. I love this quote and it loves me. Christians would call it living by faith. Kierkegaard was one of the first existential philosophers, apart from being a theologian, poet, social critic and religious author. I love another of his quotes, "Once you label me, you negate me".  It all goes to...

I had an idea of advertising in the local FB social group, actually a buy and sell group in name, and found that in my small town of Midsomer Norton, there were about 300 people who had joined. I asked if there was anyone available to talk me through making a Facebook page. About a day later, a very nice lady from a local school who had previously worked for a building society agreed to come...

Who gossips? Most of us. Who does not gossip? Very few of us. To some, it is an agreeable way of passing the time. This is not a sermon, I'm just reflecting on my own attitudes to the subject and I freely admit to being a gossiper though this is changing. A dictionary definition, or one of them, is "casual or unconstrained conversation all reports about other people, typically involving details...

In the rain, off to a joint Benefice service at Only Felicity Paulton officiated over by Canon Stephen Purvis. There were a goodly crowd of people, some of whom were strangers to me which is no surprise since they were from adjacent parishes. As soon as the Canon opened his mouth, I realised we were going to have a quality service. He introduced himself by telling us where he had had residences,...

What could be more mundane than that?  We set off to Timsbury  to do a gardening job for an old lady who curiously did not want anything planted in a very sizeable garden but just wanted the earth preserved, bare, weeds removed. Fortunately, it was the ideal day because the soil had plenty of moisture making weed removal easy, a good thing as we had to remove each one including the roots. The...

Finally, the weather seems to the set to improve so with that in mind we went to see new garden clients. The first one was a single lady from Denmark who had bought a house in this country and needed her garden tidied; the second one was a very old lady of about 90 who had a brain sharp as a pin wanted her garden weeding. We don't normally do weeding but we decided to assuage her concern and...