So here I am, in the Lake District for a week visiting family – and friends – and based at Troutbeck. It’s deep in the Lake District. Of course, the Lake District is famous for mountains, lakes, steamboats, views, daffodils, … Continue reading Mountains and More @ The Lake District!
This was really quite some weekend! What you need to know (according to Wikipedia): Lambeth Palace, London is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England. And the Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church … Continue reading From Taiwan to London ~ with love!
‘Seeds of creative imagination will grow forests of change’… Just been to my first ever Greenbelt Festival YES! It’s only been going since 1974, so it’s taken me a bit of time to get there. But having got there, y’know … Continue reading Greenbelt 2018 ‘Acts of the Imagination’
RIP Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen, tragically killed yesterday in a vicious act of violence. St. Thomas Church, Batley is one of my beloved CMS Link Churches, full of great people, the salt of the earth. When I last visited Batley in April 2015 it was in the midst of the election campaign in which Jo Cox won the seat for Batley and Spen. Praying for her family, friends, and the whole community of Batley at this sad time. This is my blog post from that visit to St. Thomas Church, originally posted on April 13, 2015…. https://catherinelee234.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/cms-link-visit-to-st-thomas-church-batley-w-yorkshire/ Continue reading Reblog: My CMS Link Visit to St. Thomas Church, Batley, W. Yorkshire
And the Christmas cards are still arriving (thank you everyone!) ~ the latest one to arrive today clearly had the post office people here completely baffled. Beautiful classical style of handwriting but if you’re not familiar with this style, it’s true, it could be a bit difficult to read. It’s been stamped as saying that the address is unknown, but someone else has clearly worked it out and written on the envelope in pencil…. All the way from sunny Tyneside too ~ and maybe I’ll keep it for next year! Continue reading From Tyneside with love….
Cricket?! Wow, Sedbergh’s featured right here, as one of the best cricket grounds in the world! From Cumbria to Cape Town via Honolulu and Switzerland, BBC Sport presents the world’s most picturesque grounds – as chosen by you. Source: The world’s best cricket grounds? Castles, cows and carpets – BBC Sport Continue reading The world’s best cricket grounds? Castles, cows and carpets – BBC Sport
St. Mary’s Church, Thornham Parva in deepest Suffolk is just about everybody’s favorite UK church! Very small, very quaint, very thatched and very very old. It also happens to be one of my supporting churches and the people are wonderful ~ I visited them earlier this year (see my blog post here) ~ the salt of the earth! The church is also very famous for the retable that hangs above the altar, apparently the largest surviving altar-piece from the English Middle Ages. St. Catherine is second left, holding her wheel ~ so I bought lots of postcards of the retable to give to … Continue reading Thornham Parva Retable ~ Stunning!
Ah yes! Mandarin in English schools will receive a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it, George Osborne has announced on a visit to China. Source: Mandarin lessons to get £10m boost, says Chancellor – BBC News Continue reading Mandarin lessons to get £10m boost, says Chancellor – BBC News
This summer’s News is dominated by tragic reports of thousands and thousands of refugees and migrants, mostly from Eritrea, Syria and Afghanistan, trying to cross the Mediterranean and get into Europe, and then those already in Europe trying to get to a place that will accept them. The best comment I have come across comes from Bishop Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham, Diocese of Oxford, writing from the UK and reflecting the overwhelming feeling of my Facebook News feed…. “..We started a war in the Middle East, radicalised Iraq (which was a largely secular state), caused a flood of refugees out into … Continue reading Refugee and Migrant Crisis….
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