Saturday, 19 June 2010

School Fête 2010

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Today saw the annual fête of Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School. I believe that it's the major fundraising event for the school each ...
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Friday, 18 June 2010

Football Fever...

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Taking full advantage of having my car back, I popped over to see a friend this evening. She hadn't eaten, and so she ordered a pizza, w...
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Thursday, 17 June 2010

More On Those Crazy Friends Of Mine...

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Those insane friends who want to cycle to Rome this summer have posted their route map. I'm showing the rest of you as proof of my asse...
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More Of Those Lourdes Photos...

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My snazzy camera is coming up to its first birthday, and I have to say that I have had a tremendous amount of pleasure using it. I haven...
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Justification...

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I have discovered that the purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to all my blonde friends. One such friend (who shall remain nameless,...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Reading This Makes My Knee Really Ache...

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Three (certifiably insane) young friends of mine are planning to cycle all the way to Rome this summer. That's a distance of 1200 miles,...

Travel Woes... And Respite!

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I have been finding things very difficult without a car. Most of the bus drivers seem to take a perverse delight in braking as sharply as po...
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Sunday, 13 June 2010

A Few More Photos From Lourdes...

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Mass is the central part of the pilgrimage to Lourdes. We were incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to celebrate High Mass twice during ...
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Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder...

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...or should that be: out of sight, out of mind? I've been incredibly busy this week, and haven't had the time to blog... and when I...
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Sunday, 6 June 2010

Ecumenical Diablog...

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An addition to the blogroll, and a worthy one. Ecumenical Diablog is rather fun!
Saturday, 5 June 2010

Bartrès...

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We organise our own pilgrimage activities in order to keep costs down. For the past few years, we have tried to have some sort of optional a...
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Back In The Real World...

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Well, I'm back home again. The pilgrimage to Lourdes was really wonderful... I was almost disappointed that the Icelandic volcano hadn...
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Thursday, 3 June 2010

Last Night In Lourdes...

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Alas, tonight is my last night here in Lourdes. I was up ridiculously late last night, desperately trying to learn the sequence for our Corp...
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Wednesday, 2 June 2010

I Love Lourdes...

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It is wonderful to be able to visit the place where Our Lady chose to appear, as Fr. Tim reminded us in his sermon this morning. The visit t...
Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Second Day...

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This morning was slightly overcast, but with the promise of bright sunshine to come. We found the new Glorious Cross chapel without any diff...
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Monday, 31 May 2010

We Have Arrived...

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We have finally arrived in Lourdes, after a surprisingly uneventful journey - albeit a very long one. I didn't manage to get any posts p...
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Saturday, 29 May 2010

Woe, Woe And Thrice, Woe...

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My car broke down again today. I was driving merrily down the A2 towards Bluewater, at 70 mph, when the car engine started to rattle. I real...
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Friday, 28 May 2010

A Moment To Treasure...

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I was driving home this afternoon in the sunshine, and I stopped to allow a mother and her children to cross over to get to the park. The mo...
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I Can See Clearly Now Lorraine Has Gone...

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Misheard lyrics can be a source of amusement (like the one in the post title!) However, they can also really change the whole meaning of a s...
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I've Been Busy...

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...so I haven't been blogging. I have almost completed all my preparations for the Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes , and am no longer hyper...
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