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This and That!


Ideas for Lent
The traditional season for self examination, fasting, repentance and preparation for Easter

Read a 'good book' on the atonement - eg 'The Cross of Christ' by John Stott
Make extra time for private prayer and devotion
Attend an extra Church meeting each week (many Churches have special Lent study groups)
Miss one meal a week and donate the money saved to charity

...then consider carrying on some of the positive disciplines into the rest of the year!

A Funny Thing Happened...

  Some time ago, I took a couple of the residents from the Home for people with Autism where I work along to the evening service at my Church for the first time. 
  One sat very quietly in her seat, soaking up the atmosphere.  The other, 'Colin', gets quite restless and likes to walk around a bit during the singing - never far from where we are seated - which our local Methodist Church are quite used to. However, not so the young preacher this night, who - clearly concerned that this strange man might disrupt his sermon! - signalled to one of his colleagues, whho came over and spoke to Colin. Next minute the two of them went out of the service to get a coffee (Colin's idea of heaven - they usually make you wait til the end!). Five minutes later they came back in and sat together on the row in front of us.
  At the end of the service I checked with Andy, the Youth Pastor who had sat with Colin, if Colin had been okay, and that he didn't mind us being there. He replied that Colin was fine, and we were most welcome, "But did he really have to hold my hand all through the service?"! 

Treat yourself - my favourite Yorshire tea rooms!

 The Warehouse, Ripon - tucked away up a ginnel, just round the corner from the cathedral, this quaint and cosy tea room offers a traditional Yorkshire welcome! A limited selection of warm snacks are available daily - including genorous helpings of delicious freshly baked quiche - or help yourself from a tempting array of yummy homemade cakes.  None of your trendy Italian coffees here, just hearty helpings of good old fashioned fare, all at reasonable prices!

  Buffers Tearoom,Storiths - set on a farm up a narrow lane, just across the river from the Bolton Abbey it's easily missed, but well worth looking for!  Honest homemade fare at reasonable prices - great cakes and biscuits, and the best Vegetable Soup I've ever tasted!  For train fans, there's also model railway displauys and plenty to buy.

 Further afield, and over the border into Derbyshire, The Courtyard Cafe, Hope - set in a quiet corner of this small Peeak District village.  Relax in the secluded courtyard or in the shelter of the conservatory, as you choose from a small but imaginative menu of mouth-watering light meals and snacks, most freshly prepared to order. The cakes too are temptingly more-ish! The Cranberry and Herb Bread is wonderful!

My Favourite Things

Favourite Cities - York and Durham
Small town - Richmond, N. Yorks
 Cathedral - Durham
 View - Ullswater from Striding Edge 
 Restaurant - The Punch Bowl, Crosthwaite (Cumbria)<
Film - "The Mission"
Stage Play -  "Martin Guerre"
Book(s) - Tad Williams 'Memory, Sorrow and TThorn' series 
TV shows - "Friends", "Dad's Army", "Allo, Alllo", "Cold Feet", "Inspector Morse"
Praise and Worship Leader - Robin Mark
Secular Music - anything except modern dance/trance etc.!  But esp. Baroque (Verdi, Handel etc), Puccini,  and folk-rock(!)

Today's Top Advert?
It has to be Emmerdale's Daz Dogs.
"Some of my best friends are grey!"
Pause for thought

According to one French doctor, each of our bodies now carries 300 synthetic industrial chemicals 
that did not exist 50 years ago. (International Herald and Tribune)
 


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