My grandmother had a crockery set made by Denby Pottery. When she died, it went to the relatives who had bought her it, and quite properly. So highly she had esteemed it that no occasion was deemed suitably grand to produce it from the sideboard. Even the annual celebrations of the birth of our Lord had to make do with cheaper cups ("in case any get broken").
St Andrew’s Church at Ewerby, in the county of Lincolnshire, is a very interesting old church dating to the early fourteenth century. It has a number of curious features which make it more unusual than some of its neighbours. So old are some of the pews that they can no longer bear weight, and signs advise visitors and worshippers not to put them to the test.
Time was short when last Wednesday’s Open Air was over. When I asked Peter where he’d been recently, I got lost in the travelogue that followed, and so I asked him if he’d be kind enough to jot down some of the highlights.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring Leo, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1 Peter 5:8, AV
Cuckooflower, also known as 'Lady's-smock', is a pretty, springtime perennial which flowers from April to June and which is thought to coincide with the arrival of the first cuckoo. This makes it one of my favourite things: a harbinger of shorter nights and warmer days.
Contrary to the opinion of many Christians, I believe that the current popularity of the they/them pronouns has a long, established history, and are even found in scripture:
And he asked him, "What is thy name?"
And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion: for we are many”. -Mark 5:9
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