Summer Holidays begin……
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The seven deadly sins CEOs won’t admit
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It’s a classic job interview question: “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” At the top of the business world, people seem to have taken to heart the advice to admit no negative traits, just positives in disguise, says Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times. Every week for the past year and a half, the Financial […]
Chartwell
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Chartwell was the principal adult home of Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill and his wife Clementine bought the property, located two miles south of Westerham, Kent, England in 1922. Extensive renovations simplifying and modernising the home were undertaken directly, completely transforming it when complete. When it became clear to the Churchills in 1946 that they could […]
A Trip down the River!
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Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London; it has not been inhabited by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames. It was originally built […]
AM I NO LONGER YOUNG?
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Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me Keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. -Mary Oliver
Israel(4) Desert Places
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The Judean Desert is an area with a special morphological structure along the east of the Judean mountains. It stretches from the northeastern Negev to the east of Beit El, and is marked by terraces with escarpments. It ends in a steep escarpment dropping to the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. The Judean […]
Israel (3) The Garden Tomb
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The Garden Tomb is believed by many to be the garden and sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea, and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus. The Garden is owned and administered by The Garden Tomb ( Jerusalem) Association, a Charitable Trust based in the United Kingdom. The Garden Tomb is a quiet place […]
Israel – January 2011 – part 2: the Sea of Galilee
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Matthew 4.13-23 13He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the lake, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14so that what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15 ‘Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— 16 […]
Israel January 2011
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Last month I was fortunate to be able to go to Israel (10th -17th of January). I has been a very transformative experience and given me a great deal to reflect upon. I plan to share some of the images over the next few days….. May the God who called our father Abraham to journey […]
to express the sky
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This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you have never found A way to make the grass mean what you mean. A cloud can be whatever you intend: Ostrich or leaning tower or staring eye. But you have never found A cloud […]
A revolution in the most unlikely of places?
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I was very glad that my old friend and parishioner Cliff Morrey continues to wage war against the forces of bureaucracy! 17 households from one street challenge council tax bands and share £50,000 refund Residents from a street in Solihull have been refunded £49,000 after 17 neighbours challenged their council tax bands. The valuers’ office said […]
to express the sky
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One of the sheer joys of my home in Windsor is the sense of the vast open space of the sky ….. This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you have never found A way to make the grass mean what you […]
Durham Miners Gala
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A quiet Saturday has gven me the opportunity to do some thinking and planning for an invitation to preach that has given me a great deal of pride and pleasure. On July 10th I shall travel north to preach in Durham Cathedral for the One hundreth and first Miners Festival Service in Durham Cathedral. A […]
Upton House
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I enjoyed a very pleasant visit to Upton House recently. The collection of pictures is quite stunning! Upton is a country house in the county of Warwickshire, about seven miles north west of Banbury, Oxfordshire. It is in the care of the National Trust. Built in about 1695 for Sir Rushout Cullen, Upton is a long […]
In Praise of the train
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It has been quite a week! On the way back from friends in Oxfordshire on Thursday I had a tyre explode …. quite an unpleasant shock! I managed to move the car over into the emergency lane without hitting anything else! I had a close shave with danger but was glad to come out of […]
Accessing the spiritual?
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The tourist season has certainly started here and its worth pausing to consider the lure of these buildings: Painting and sculpture, music and drama, architecture and liturgy: all these involve arranging the physical world in ways that lead beyond the visible. This explains why abbey churches, like cathedrals, have always been places of artistic beauty, […]
Ten things
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Ten good things about holidays…… After a couple of days the alarm clock and watch become unnecessary You can take all morning to read the newspaper Drinking at lunchtime is a possibility and soem days a necessity Time for experimentation with all those odd fragments of recipes rescued from Sunday papers in the hope of […]
Happy Holidays
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Even Bloggers need a rest and some inspiration…… see you in September after a well deserved break! Here are some images that will give you some idea as to what I shall be looking forward to!!
Brooke Foss Westcott
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Today the Church commemorates Westcott. Here is a summary of some of the hihglights of his remarkably high achieving life and ministry. His work covers many of my own interests and places of significance ( The Delhi Brotherhood, Westcott House Cambridge where I was trained and, of course, Durham). He was born in Birmingham. […]
Spring
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spring fever Today, look: another day. Waking, wide open, Afraid. Don’t dive into the library, Into yet another book! Reach for your guitar, Let love, let beauty, be what it is we do: You don’t have to fly abroad, in order to kneel And kiss the tarmac! The breeze at dawn has secrets to […]