Tomorrow's service will be the first of the summer to offer two 'parallel' paths.

The main service will be quiet and reflective, so the parallel is aimed at those who might perfer something active and tactile.  Whatever people choose is totally fine.

Watch this space (so long as the platform stays up!!)

After that mishap I was fearful I'd lose (had lost) all my stuff.  I found an 'export content' toll hidden in the depths of the blog and have now done so... a TXT file with lots of unicode (or some such) stuff, but at least I have all the words I've written and, I think, all the comments.  This is good news!!

Apologies to anyone who was getting error messages when trying to see this site.  I don't know what happened, except it told me I needed to pay more money to get more storage cos I'd used most of what I had.  Anyway, I'm now good to go for the next six months or so and can review then.

According to the little green owl called Duo, I have now done some French lessons every day for 21 days.  Some days I do the minimum consistent with my 'target' of two lessons a day, which means roughly 40 sentences to translate, other days are may do as many as ten or twelve lessons.

On the plus side, it's starting to get easier - my vocabulary has survived forty years of neglect, and the verb endings, at least for present tense, are coming back well now.

This evening I've been amused by sentences such as, "you need to take more exercise!" "you need to drink more water!" and, best of all, "you will be cold in that dress!"  Who knew the little cartoon owl was actually everyone's mother!!

In contrast, the Greek has stalled and I'm taking  break and then I'll go back to the beginning and start again.  My comprehension is fine, but I haven't really absorbed any verb endings, reflexives or noun agreements.

I have also been listening to largish chunks of Bible every day, read to me by David Suchet.  Whilst I have slept through a fair amount of Leviticus and Numbers, it has been surprising how much has been more familiar than I expected.  I am enjoying listening rather than reading, hearing someone else's idea of where to emphasise or pause, slow down or get louder.  And it's definitely feeding some inner need.

Maybe my next challenge will be to listen to the Bible in French... or even Greek... or maybe not!!

It probably simply demonstrates that I am slightly odd, but today someone called me a fairy godmother, and it made my little heart sing!

It was nothing, so far as I could see.  The tinies were getting restless and it was Communion time.  So, once everyone else had been served, I simply wandered to where they were and offered them bread.

The servers quietly got out more glasses and filled them with juice (we had filled enough for the adults/older children and had a few over, but not quite enough for everyone present)

It was very precious, the restlessness ceased and the children were 'in the moment'

And that, it seems, earned me the epithet 'fairy godmother' which I'll take and own with pride.