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Posted by Martin Rolls I walked with my wife and son this morning to our 11th century small lovely village church. The sun was bright and warm and the sky blue. The church was full of lovely flowers – even more than usual because there had been a wedding yesterday, and our Morning Prayer service focused on the Ascension. The beautiful Victorian stained glass in the east window depicts Christ ascending and was particularly evocative today as we sang “Immortal, invisible God only wise…”. Later, after doing some chores, our good Sunday lunch, which we shared with a neighbour who is an elderly widow in not good health, consisted of roast chicken with all the trimmings followed by bramley apple pudding. In my case it was washed down with a glass of fine English ale. The afternoon saw us relax for a while after listening to my son doing his piano practice, (he’s twelve and we’re very proud of him). After a sandwich tea my wife and son settled down to watch a dvd, but I preferred to sit in the garden. I sat on a bench on the patio watching martins and woodpigeons crossing the sky, which was still blue with only a trace of white cloud. I gazed at the lush green grass rolling gently down to the summer house, the green and healthy Albertus fir reaching up to the sky, the mauve flag iris, the lobelia coming on, hardy marigolds in bright orange, climbing roses in mauve/pink and deep red, and honeysuckle on the breeze. I’d brought my portable cd player with me and I listened on earpieces to Jim singing across the years – He Will, Oh Gentle Shepherd, Across the Bridge, An Evening Prayer, My Cathedral – bliss! Gentleman Jim is surely remembered and played throughout the world, but nowhere is he more appreciated than in my English garden. The Almighty has given us so much to be grateful for.
on 20/5/2007, 2:36 pm
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Here in the east of England climate change has brought warmer weather with more sunshine. Often in spring and summer now we get bright continental weather. April was very fine and dry, bringing on the spring plants, and May opened with a week of warm penetrating rain.
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