More Reflections

I can remember as a child, begging my parents to let me give up piano lessons. I wanted to swap them for riding lessons; like many little girls I was obsessed with horses and I was envious of my friend Kay, who went riding every Saturday. My parents insisted that I should keep going with… Read more

The months of September and October seem full of beginnings and endings – new schools/universities, new jobs and the end of summer, packing away the shorts and getting out the winter woollies. In these months, the church has traditionally celebrated harvest, the collecting in of the grain and the fruits to keep us going through… Read more

Today we come to the end of the season of Creationtide in our church Calendar and it is also Harvest at St Mary’s. We will be bringing our offerings forward to the front of the church during the service. These are going to The Pantry this year. Winchester Community Food Pantry in Winnall enables members… Read more

Most of you will know that – wearing my ‘other hat’ for the Diocese of Winchester – I have recently travelled to Burundi,  a country with which the Diocese has a longstanding ‘companion link’. One of the noticeable things as we drove around the country was how many trees are being planted. Burundi is one… Read more