UNKLE: War Stories
I love this album more every time I listen to it. (*****)
Tom Middleton: Lifetracks
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Fink: Distance and Time
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Coldcut: Sound Mirrors
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At Grace we celebrated Easter with an early morning communion service and breakfast, followed by a walk in Osterley Park for hardy souls willing to brave the snow. We created some liturgy in the service, which has become the last entry in the 2008 Grace Lent Blog. Do take a look at the Good Friday entry, And you held me, by Anna Poulson. This is the most beautiful reflection on the Passion I've read in a long while, and it's shaped my Easter.
I went to Cambridge yesterday for the annual Higher Education Chaplaincy Association conference and AGM. It was great to share news, thinking and ideas about chaplaincy with a spread of people from across the UK. And there was time to take a few photos during the gloriously sunny lunch break!
On July 20th last year, my parents were flooded out of their house in Berkshire. Last Sunday, 2nd March, they were finally able to move back in. They spent have spent a little over seven months living in hotels and temporary accommodation while negotiating with insurance companies, claims managers, plumbers, electricians and, most painfully, the awful builders appointed by the insurers. They have still got many months of work replacing and repairing things that were damaged, and their strength and fortitude through all this has been an inspiration.
Along their road, people are still living in caravans on their front gardens. The area is not known as a flood risk, and the local council and water company seem at a loss to explain why it happened, still less as to how it may be prevented in future.
Grace continues the series on Lenten journeys with an interactive exploration of Elijah in the desert. 8pm at St. Mary's South Ealing.
I penned my second contribution to the Grace Lent Blog on Saturday.
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