FARNFIELD ANTHONY KENNETH (Tony) Passed away suddenly on 25th November 2014, aged 47 years. He will be greatly missed by his wife Paula, parents Brian & Maureen, both families, many friends and colleagues. A service in celebration of Tony’s life to be held at Reading Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin on Wednesday 17th […]
Family Communion: 19th October 2014 – other texts may be found in a similar vein at www.nurseryrhymemass.org.uk Gathering Song (Here we go round the Mulberry Bush) We gather round in this holy space Holy Space, filled with grace We gather round in this holy space To do what Jesus taught us We hear the stories […]
Family Communion: 15th June 2014 See here for the Prezi and to download it. Or you can download a fully standalone version from here (zip file) Gathering Song (Here we go round the Mulberry Bush) We gather round in this holy space Holy Space, filled with grace We gather round in this holy space To […]
I think all this Marriage Preparation is making me all soppy… 24 years this year. Across the road, I watched as you window shopped, bag in hand And as people and cars rushed past, I stood motionless as a boat becalmed… And at that party, there was a strange aura that hovered around you, […]
Gathering Song: =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnPVJYTW9s8 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen The Lord be with you and also with you Penitential Rite (ba ba blacksheep) Just like lost sheep we have gone astray Done bad things and run away So we come to say sorry Make things […]
Three years ago I thought about my Desert Island Discs. Now, in the post-Christmas, pre-Funeral lull, I turn my thoughts to the whole album which has meant so much to me, the LPs which I would wade into the surf to rescue… You can tell a lot about people from their all-time top albums: not […]
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For us, this was a good Greenbelt: the weather was much kinder than last year and the team was on form: co-ordinated, functional, friendly and a lot of fun: Lou, Liam, Emma, JJ, Jack, Vickie, Elizabeth and Bryony and I worked really well together to deliver five acts of worship. We didn’t take any pictures ourselves, and […]
Last night (14th September) I travelled up to Salford to visit BBC TV’s studio to take part in Mastermind, but as it has just been broadcast (25th January 2013) and I have now seen it for the very first time, I can blog about it. It was a really enjoyable experience, despite the nerves of appearing in that […]
This morning sees me at 87.3kg – and the excellent MyFitnessPal system has momentously dropped by daily calorie goal to 1600Kcal a day, so it’s going to be harder now. The reason it is going to be harder is this: food obsesses me. Hunger, Blood Sugar (I have been an Insulin-dependent diabetic for the past […]
