My last post was about the wedding on Star Wars Day, May 4th, so let's try to get a bit more up to date by covering just over a week, starting with May 6th, last Bank Holiday Monday.
As we did on Easter Monday, a group of us went up Cleeve Hill again, and then to the Rising Sun-definitely a good idea on all but the worst of weather. And it definitely wasn't. When we went out last time, it was nice but very cold, so we went round pretty quickly. This time, the weather was absolutely lovely, sunny and warm, so we took our time about going round and enjoyed the sunshine. We went further, and stopped at the top to admire the view. Unfortunately I don't have any pics to share, so I can only recommend you go up there and check it out for yourself. Then we had lunch at the pub, and despite the fact that it was such good weather that we were able to sit outside, it wasn't that full, so we had plenty of space. And afterwards we did something we didn't do last time, and several of us went back to my new house and relaxed with board games. We started in the garden by playing Scruples, which is something that is great fun, but dangerously unpredictable. And in the evening, some of us went out for a curry to the Kashmir.
And on Wednesday, we had a guest at our cluster. Richard Tweedy, a friend who is now a curate in a rural parish in Worcs, who was telling us some of his highlights of what he has been up to in basically his first year in the job. He told us some interesting things, such as about how he now has a lodger. One of his neighbours had to leave his house rather hurriedly for personal reasons and was in the middle of a college course, so would find it difficult to look for somewhere; so in desperation, he asked Rich if he could stay with him. Which Rich was more than happy to do. He's since invited him along to Cwmbran, and he was up for that. And the other highlight he had was a new initiative in his local village of Wichenford. There was a service in the church there, which was getting single figure numbers, so he suggested something, and they started a cafe church. Once a month, they use the village hall and have bacon butties-and talk about God. It's grown to about 40, in a place which has a pop of about 160. And one of the other villages has asked if they can do one too. More info can be found on their new website. He explained how when he started going for interviews, he had a long list of what he wanted, but somehow when he went for this position, the list more or less went out of the window. One of the things he thought he wanted was a good website, and his first task was to work with a web developer to build one-which can be found here.
I could have gone out on Friday-I was invited to a performance by some students-but I ended up not doing anything. However, Saturday I went to an anniversary BBQ in Prestbury; having discovered just how close it was. And that was a brilliant occasion; a time for catching up with friends and relaxing and laughing. May there be many more occasions just like that.
And not like what happened the following Monday, which thankfully is all over now. I got in on Monday to discover I'd done something really silly on the 3rd-I hadn't locked up properly before leaving. I met with my prayer partner as usual that evening and we prayed about it. I felt strongly that God had it in hand, and didn't want me to worry about it, and a couple of days ago I got an official letter saying that no further action would be taken. So that's all good, then. Now I just have to make sure I don't do it again. Ever.
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