word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe reflects on St Paul’s words on love — and women Mtins with morning tea . Very early. The sun tips the fields with indescribable glory. Thousands of starlings wing north on a bird Haj. Am I approaching Lent, or is Lent approaching me? It is dreadfully cold, and the Bemerton [...]
Continue reading about word from Wormingford 19th February, 2010
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 21st February –1st Sunday in Lent For more information about anything in this Bulletin contact the Vicar Items for inclusion in next weeks BENEFICE BULLETIN by Friday please Vicar: The Rev’d Henry Heath, Wormingford Vicarage CO6 3AZ ( 01 787 227398 email:vicar@wormingford.com See your parish website: [...]
Continue reading about Benefice Bulletin for 21st February, 2010
Ronald Blythe considers two new acquisions for his library TWO books have joined each other on the library table, and will most likely stay there for many a long year. One is Andrew Linzey’s extraction from the Gospels of The Sayings of Jesus, the other is Diarmaid MacCulloch’s vast A History of Christianity. The [...]
Continue reading about word from Wormingford 12th February 2010
BENEFICE BULLETIN Sunday 14th February – Next before Lent For more information about anything in this Bulletin contact the Vicar Items for inclusion in next weeks BENEFICE BULLETIN by Friday please Vicar: The Rev’d Henry Heath, Wormingford Vicarage CO6 3AZ ( 01 787 227398 email:vicar@wormingford.com See your parish [...]
word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe catches a glimpse, albeit briefly, of spring SPRING arrived today. The white cat and I, toasting our bottoms on opposing radiators, watched it through the window. For a few hours, January stepped down, and April stood up to be counted. How happy we were. As I collected the [...]
Continue reading about word from Wormingford 5th February, 2010
word from Wormingford Ronald Blythe admires some expert hedge-laying DRIVING to church through the melted snow lakes, we very nearly brake with astonishment. Duncan has laid his mainly hawthorn hedge. Not given it what-ho! with what his father used to call “the murderer” — the machine that did as much in an hour [...]
Continue reading about word from Wormingford 29th January, 2010
