Back in the autumn of 2024 I was trawling the music filing cabinet drawers looking for inspiration for anthems to take us through Advent. That’s when I rediscovered “Dance, Little Lady”, written by our very own Rev Debby Plummer, and perfect for the third Sunday, on which we remember Mary. Jeremy had introduced this song … More Dance, Little Lady (D Plummer)
I meet up each month for lunch with a group of friends. Usually Wednesday lunchtimes are fairly quiet – this week the pub was full, mostly with people celebrating Christmas, although from the church perspective we’re still in Advent. Every year we have these dilemmas – when to put up the Christmas tree, to have the Christmas flowers and to bring out the crib … More Gaudete Sunday
Is it only me that has a favourite compendium of sacred anthems? It’s “the blue and yellow one”, also known as “Anthems for Choirs 2: Twenty-four Anthems for Sopranos and Altos (unison and 2-part)”, edited by Philip Ledger and published by OUP. Unusually for such a compendium, I have sung well over half of the 24 anthems, and many of my favourites are in the selection … More The Song of the Tree of Life – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
When I was child, my parents and I moved to the United States for a couple of years. It was spring and so one of the first English phrases I learnt in my new school was: ‘April flowers bring May showers’ – I kept saying it the wrong way around until somebody finally corrected me … More April Showers
Good morning and welcome to our service of holy communion for Sunday 4 September. Rev Sue will preach and preside, and we will welcome baby Georgiana to the family of Christ in her baptism this morning … More Sunday 4 September
I was born into the beautiful Persian city of Susa. The countryside there is fertile and fruit, vegetables and flowers all grow in abundance. The palace is breath-taking. It has magnificent marble pillars inlaid with precious stones and is furnished with luxurious hangings … More Building Community Together
Many of you will know that I have spent a few days recently at the Hotel Christie due to a little cocktail mix of chemo, flu jab, COVID booster and a drain procedure compounded a low immune system. I am fine now! … More Gaudete Sunday
I don’t know whether any of you have seen the film Pleasantville. It’s an American film from 1998 about a teenage boy, David, and his sister Jennifer. They are very different. Jennifer is a party girl – David is obsessed with a black and white 1950’s sitcom set in a Midwest town called Pleasantville. One evening, alone in the house they fight over the remote control and break it … More Pleasantville
Good evening and a very warm welcome to our Christmas Eve midnight service – the first Eucharist of Christmas … More First Eucharist of Christmas
It’s June. After one of the wettest Mays on record, many of us are hoping and praying for a drier, sunnier summer. Many of us are also hoping and praying for the return of some of the freedoms we took for granted until March last year … More What a Wonderful World (Weiss & Thiele, arr. Brymer)
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