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Walking out of church

For the fainthearted . . .

We are in the Dordogne today, one of the most beautiful departments of France and much-loved by English visitors and settlers.

One Sunday some years ago we went to an English-speaking service in a French village.  It was a beautiful place, every turning brought another picture postcard scene.  The village church was an imposing place, a sign of the village’s great wealth in the middle ages.  Built in the local stone and in excellent repair, it was witness to a continuing presence of Christian faith in the village.

The Catholic …

A lonely farm

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 Somerset – 5th August

Kneeling in church after the service this morning, I read the details of a war memorial tablet on the church wall.  I must have seen it many times, but its oddity had never struck me before.

Two young men were commemorated, the first:

Lance Corporal James Robert Uttermare Mead

7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry

who died age 26

on 5th August 1917

Perhaps the memorial struck more forcibly because today is the 90th anniversary of James Mead’s death.

The memorial continues:

Also

Gunner Thomas Champion Denham …

Unworthy reasons for staying away

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Somerset – 5th August

I didn’t go to church for seven years.

I went to church, but not to this church, the church here in the village where I grew up.  I was rarely ever here on a Sunday anyway, but if the odd holiday arose when I would be here, I would go somewhere else.

It arose from the vicar.  He was only around my age but presumed he had the right to talk down to me.  One Sunday in 1990, we were here in Somerset and I ventured …

The forgotten

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2nd August – Herefordshire

Welsh Water have been turning off the mains supply from 8 am to 6 pm.  It is something to do with work on a new main.  In the middle of the wettest summer for years, it could hardly be a water shortage.  No water from 8 am might be fine if you are heading out to work, when it is the first day of the summer holidays, it’s not so welcome. Our hostess advised us of the supply cuts and said she had drawn off water …

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