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…
New site for my writing.
I started writing regularly on my blog here at the start of lockdown, and posted quite a few reflections on that unique period as my “Diary of an Involuluntary Acolyte. ” I decided to draw that to a close a…
Ride & Stride 2020
Ride and Stride is the yearly sponsored bike ride or walk in which people all over England walk or cycle between churches, raising money to help save historic churches, chapels and meeting houses. Last year, Kent raised £140,602 ! The…
Photographic Competition
Canterbury Society is holding a competition for the best photo of a natural environment scene in the area to celebrate National Meadow Day. It is open to all members of the community. The closing date for entries is 15th August.…
Personal Pleasures no 3: Sunflowers
I like all flowers, but there is something particularly wonderful about the sunflower. I love to see fields of them in the South of France, rows and rows of yellow faces all lined up with soldiers on parade. I love…
Personal Pleasures no 2: Being in a Garden
A friend long since deceased used to say that the main point of a garden was to sit in it. In our culture where being busy is seen as a virtue we tend to feel we have to apologise if…
Personal Pleasures no 1: Gardening
Aristotle teaches that virtue is both a means to an end (eudaemonia, a worthwhile life), and an end in itself, because being virtuous is one element of eudaemonia. History does not relate whether Aristotle was a gardener, although it is…
Personal Pleasures – an Introduction
This series of reflections is inspired by a work by the novelist Rose Macaulay, who published a book under this name in the 1930’s. As is the case with many good interwar novelists, much of her work is now almost…
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…