You may have felt that not much was happening about the plans to improve the churchyard in recent months, but quite a bit has been going on in preparation work and you will start to see the results of this…
Back to Normal?
27th June 2020 The number of new cases and deaths from Covid 19 reported each day has fallen in recent weeks and so things are gradually “returning to normal”. In fact the figures are far from negligible – we still…
Travelling In
“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company” Not as you might think a quotation from some…
An Alert Anchorite?
Instead of “Stay at Home” we are now being asked to “Stay Alert”. No-one seems quite sure what this means, but it feels as if we have been gradually developing our alertness skills since lockdown started. As I see it,…
Christian Aid Week Resources
Here are some links to help you do your bit towards Christian Aid Week fundraising: The Christian Aid websitehttps://www.christianaid.org.uk/ Lots of information, online activities to support and ideas for your own fundraising activities. St Stephen’s Just-giving page. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ststephenschristianaid2020 Donate here…
Christian Aid Week
Normally this week many of us would be getting ready for our house to house collection of Christian Aid Week. St Stephen’s usually raises around £2000 through this – a significant some for those in poor countries living on a…
Hidden treasures of an overstuffed anchorhold
Like a lot of people, I am using some of my lockdown time to sort out things in the house. Actually I had already decided to do that because my mother died last autumn, and making room for the stuff…
Not a real anchorite?
When I decided to call myself “an involuntary anchorite” in my lockdown blog, I realised that it was either a joke (like a duchess calling her stately home “my little place in the country”) or immensely arrogant. Loretta lived in…
Easter in a 21st Century Anchorhold
So – my first Easter in lockdown; though perhaps not the last, if the worst predictions about the virus’s ability to fight back – mutation, the possibility of second infections – is true. How different has it been from normal?…
Holy Week thoughts of an Involuntary Anchorite
Holy Week has some great dramatic services : The Palm Sunday Procession followed by the dramatic reading of the gospel, the Blessing of the Holy Oils on Maundy Thursday morning or the Foot washing and Stripping of the Altar in…