Meeting on Sunday 3-5pm at Wood Street Cricket ground car park. Wear suitable footwear. Keep an eye on the weather. Feel free to bring something with you that can help you to engage with nature eg. binoculars, camera, note/sketchpad. There will be opportunity to use these. Location: OS Grid map…

Meeting on Saturday 18th March 3-5pm at Wood Street Cricket ground car park. Wear suitable footwear. Keep an eye on the weather. Last time we were up to our wellies in water after heavy rain! It was much drier on Sunday 5th March . Feel free to bring something with…

Today I heard the sad news that Dr. Michael Heiser passed away yesterday 20.02.23. Here is more details about that from Charisma news website Twitter Feed

On the weekend of my 50th birthday I had the opportunity to visit two very special places. The first was the Knepp Estate which has been featured on the BBC Countryfile programme and in my favourite book of 2019 – Wilding, by Isabella Tree. The second was planned by my…

As a little introduction to this post look out for a key repeated phrase and concept. Some of you who read this or all of you may experience the repeated theme. I will explore its meaning after recounting the dream. I was helping out at an inspection of royalty at…

Today was a rather windy damp December, day making it feel like 3 degrees Celsius! I was in a garden working. Some Crocosmia sp needed thinning out as it was dominating a corner of the garden. Being close to the ground made what was about happen rather special. I was…

At the church where I attend we’re moving into a new season which is without a minister. We are thrown onto the mercy of God. We begin this time with 36 hours of prayer launched with praise and worship. There was an opportunity for individuals throughout the evening to write…

Here is another dream from last year which continues to stir and provoke me. In our current situation as people of God we need to rely on the Holy Spirit to guide us in reaching out to others. This dream is like the title states about stepping out of your…

I arrive by my van at a garage, service station and was watching some of the activity. One large thug like guy was threatening others and throwing his weight around. I needed something doing to my vehicle. My vehicle had changed to a kind of quad bike. He approaches me…

Thinking of harvest has made sense of a couple of dreams that I had last year. One in around February and the other in October. I wrote of the first one in the last blog. I will expand on that one a little here and introduce another one which I…

Yes at this time of household lockdown we are restricted in our nature connection but we can enjoy what we see before us however small that is. When I say small I mean a small space as well as a small flower, bee, lichen or whatever. Each day I go…

Later I had the scripture whilst gardening, trying to settle myself in the Lord: Be of good cheer I have overcome the world. I couldn’t recall where it was from but it was great to have that to keep coming back to all morning and throughout the day. I did…

In these uncertain times with Covid-19 I have to face what might happen in regards to my family, with lots of uncertainty. I’ve been praying about that, people I know and the local church. I was longing to receive a word from God particularly for Debbie in her situation with…

Some of you may have heard of NT Wright the theologian. He was once the Bishop of Durham. He talks in his writings and lectures about heaven and earth coming together in Christ. The New Heaven and the New Earth has been started by Jesus. I was reading some of…

I continue unpacking the Freedom dream. In this post I deal with the part where I get alongside Rosemary who is blind. I have often wondered why she was chosen by my sleeping brain. Of all the elements within the dream I spent the most time considering who she is…

There I was trudging along through the darkness in the dream with a host of other people. I was in the same position as other human beings; being driven, not knowing the way out or whether there was a way out. Then into the darkness came a choice to receive…

This is a kind of fungus (possibly Antrodia serialis) which I found appealing which is on a gate post that is rotting. I don’t know what it is about things like this that appeal. Maybe it’s something about the pattern. There is an irregular regularity about it. I’m sure that…

In this post I begin unpacking the Freedom dream. One thing I must say at this point there was a very strong feeling about this dream that it wasn’t just for me. There was a strong sense of the corporate about it. The initial feeling that was so strong was…

Today brings a welcome addition to the garden bird list, one that is long overdue. The house was empty on arriving home for lunch but there was a tell-tale sign of some detective work regarding a bird sighting. On the side in the kitchen was a small pair of binoculars…

In my blog a few days ago I mentioned books I have read that have benefitted me recently. A book I forgot to mention was: I managed to find this one on the RB digital app linked to my local library. I work outside gardening. I listen to books, podcasts,…

I want to bring to your attention some books I have read over the summer and more recently. The first of these is on a subject which is very current. It is a story of a former gay activist who writes about his life. He shares how he has struggled…

I have just finished a book by Amy Pascoe called ‘Don’t Faint Pray’. For those of you outside of Cornwall you may not know of this lady. Having grown up in Cornwall during my teenage years I came across her and worked for her family during a couple of Summer…

Yesterday evening a friend and I went to a poetry evening with Mary Colwell. She has written a book called Curlew Moon. At this event the plight of curlews Numenius arquata was explained to us with passion and gentleness. We had managed to speak to her before she shared her…

I haven’t posted anything for a while. Gardening has been taking up my time and frankly I have been physically tired. Found this note in clearing out some papers:

As a family we had the pleasure of visiting Fox Corner local nature reserve for the first time this year a few days ago. What struck me the most was a blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) singing in an unusual manner in some shrubs. I then heard another further away but it…

On the 10th August 2016 I wrote an extended entry on the aforementioned plant. I recently inherited, very kindly, a set of Chris Howkins books and booklets. This author was quite well known by the former owner of the books having been to numerous talks of his. He researches and…

I have attached below a great talk which is about thinking. This is something we all do and I have plenty of it in my time gardening! Kris unpacks it and relates our thinking to the passage in Roman’s 12 about the mind of Christ. He takes the listener into…

A short comment about a podcast I listened to today which unpacks through a husband and wife conversation, encounters with God. This podcast explains to my mind about this particular paradigm in our relationship with God which is essential for our transformation. I found it encouraging and it picked me…

My thanks to Melissa Foat and Debbie Marshall for these photos. Enjoy these photos to experience some of what we did. Examine in silence imagining bird song and the air on your face. On an exceptionally bright and warm day in February, a few of us gathered for Forest church…

A new record for the garden this morning. A song thrush (Turdus philomelos) was walking and hopping down the garden path feeding as it went. We’ve had their relatives, blackbird (Turdus merula), redwing (Turdus iliacus) and fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) in the garden but not this one. A real pleasure to…

This morning started out bright and cheerful. There was a real hint of spring. Very mild compared to last week. The sky was a wintry colour with the sun breaking through. In the back garden where the silver birch (Betula pendula), of the neighbour’s grows, I hear siskins (Spinis spinus)…

This is a good time of year for a Forest Church walk. (Search previous posts for what Forest Church entails). I have begun to plan for this. The route in mind needed to be checked out. The map was showing a path but from previous experience small grey dashes don’t…

I haven’t written on connecting with God for some time. Some of you may wander how I do this. The process I undertake varies. I don’t think there is a formula for this kind of activity but it helps to at least start somewhere.This morning my thoughts took a ready…

On Wednesday 3rd October I took a trip over to St Mary’s Church, Worplesdon. This was to gather more ideas for the next Forest Church meet. It was pleasantly empty. I was alone apart from the graves of many who have passed on. I headed to the south east corner…

In my preparation for a recent Encounter meeting I was researching into the Hebrew meanings of the words in the verse, using some of the original pictographs courtesy of Jeff Benner’s work. The same morning, I had a dream which, contained within it images which related to the study! Taking the…

Bat walks are a feature of various National Trust properties. Near us in Surrey there are a number of National Trust properties. Hatchlands is one of these, a large Parkland consisting of a little over 480 acres. Within the grounds of hatchlands comma there are wooded areas comma pasture a…

Recently, the words of the Father in Luke 15 came to me whilst gardening. You are always with me, everything I have is yours. So I looked again at the story where this comes from. We need to remember who Jesus was talking too. In verse 1 of the same…

The Sunday after the Leprosy Mission talk I arrived home with the family. Debbie and I were beginning to sort lunch out and I was in the kitchen. I looked up, out of the side kitchen window – there on the fence was a male sparrowhawk (Accipiter nissus)! I tried…

In January I took a walk on the edges of the Ash Ranges. I began to relax into the environment and in turn my thinking. As I walked along the path I was alerted to some calls high up in the scots pines (Pinus sylvestris). A coal tit (Periparus ater) flew across…

Our verse for the year at Emmanuel is Romans 12 verse 2 from The Message. In the New Living Translation, the section about renewing your mind says: ‘…but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think…’ This translation in the past has helped me to…

Parbola campsite was quite a find. Set in West Cornwall about 5 miles south of Camborne and surrounded by hedges on one side and a mixed woodland with a stand of spruce. During the May bank holiday it had only 10 tents at the most but certainly could accommodate many more.…

Jesus is Lord! Creation’s voice proclaims itFor by His power each tree and flowerWas planned and madeJesus is Lord! The universe declares itSun, moon and stars in heavenCry, ‘Jesus is Lord’‘Jesus is Lord!’ ‘Jesus is Lord’Praise him with Hallelujah’sFor Jesus is Lord! I was looking for a creation creed that…

On holiday in Wales recently we stayed in a lovely converted milking parlour which had 15 acres of land surrounding it. We had the privilege of walking three Kune-kune pigs down the meadow with their owners. It was within the field that the owner said that he couldn’t mow the…

What if the whole creation, the process behind it being what it is, was a person, wouldn’t that make life more interesting?! An unfolding adventure?! In a moment of sleeping in one of my children’s beds after swapping, I was trying to get off to sleep so started whisper praying (thinking,…

A lovely mild evening out there this evening with blue sky and light cloud noticeable even after sunset. I only had the energy to go out the back door with my bat detector. As soon as I stepped out I turned it on and picked up the fine ticking of a pipistrelle…

Now, I thought it was about time for a new post. The title reflects more of my thinking than of an actual ramble – that would be fine too. Saying that, I am missing going outside at present and have a real longing to have a winter walk. I can…