Sunday Blog
Just thought I’d tell you about this morning as it was an unusual service. We started off singing, as we always do. After a couple of songs the musicians were playing and Mo started to sing on her own. She was making it up as she went along. It was beautiful and the whole congregation was so blessed! Anyway the singing really ‘took off’, so Dave came to the mike and said he would not preach today, instead we would just carry on singing. For the rest of the meeting we were all just singing and dancing – it was really great! In all the years we’ve been going to church, and even though pastors speak of days when that sort of thing happened, Mo and I have never known it happen.
After such a meeting who could just ‘go home’? We went to Wortley Hall. As we got into the car I caught my thumb, or rather the nail, and really hurt it. Look :O(
Anyway, it was a beautiful day and still plenty of frost around to help.
The first thing we saw were hundreds of sheep all walking one way in a very long line. So long that we couldn’t see the end of the line in either direction!
Just look at that frost! You can’t see it in the photos, but the sun was sparkling all over the frost like hundreds of little diamonds.
I couldn’t resist a couple of macro shots, but even on macro you couldn’t capture the sparkle of the sun on the frost crystals.
In parts where the sun was you could see clear signs that spring is on it’s way :O)
Snowdrops
Daffodils
And now showing my ignorance…..another flower! ha ha!
And just another photo to show how wonderful Mother Nature is. Look what has grown out from, what appears to be, a totally dead tree trunk! The photo doesn’t show clearly that it is shooting right from the side of the old trunk.
We sat for a while, on a bench outside Wortley Hall, and warmed ourselves in the sunshine. The sun was so warm you could actually lay out in it, yet the frost was clearly all around – very strange.
One last picture to show how blue and clear the sky was.
We then went and had one of Sandie’s famous coffee’s with cream and marshmallows.
All in all, a lovely day!
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weechuff | 17 February 2008 at 19:32
Oh I am so glad that you went there. It is such a lovely walk isn’t it? And what can I say about the cappucino?
weechuff | 17 February 2008 at 19:39
And I forgot to say that what happened in Church this morning sounds lovely!
granny grimble | 17 February 2008 at 20:09
Oh! What a wonderful blog So heart warming and happy, it made me feel quite tearful. Mainly because I wanted so much to be there with you and I know that for various reasons it will never be! It was so well written that it was the next best thing to experiencing it.
I hope you write some more in the same vein. Thank you.
Beetle | 17 February 2008 at 20:19
It is sad. Can’t Arthur walk anywhere?
And what about my poor thumb?!
granny grimble | 17 February 2008 at 20:30
Got so carried away with all that beauty that I completely forgot to comment on the poor, poor, digit. It looks so sore (albeit a bit wrinkly!) Is it feeling a bit better now?
Let me know when David books Mo for one of those special concert nights, and we’ll be there!
And, next time you go to that tea room, smuggle me out one of those cappucinos, marshmallows and all! Sounds like it’s to die for! By the way the mystery flowers look very much like Daffs to me.
granny grimble | 17 February 2008 at 20:32
It depends on what sort of a day he’s having. Today has been very wobbly. He won’t use a stick and I’m not strong enough to really support him if he goes over! MEN !!!! Any way we can’t get there. XXXX
Sindie | 17 February 2008 at 20:45
What an amazing day! The service sounded so lovely. :0)
Poor thumb, I bet it throbbed? It will of course be so sore for days now and you just know you’ll keep hitting it!
Wortley Hall is beautiful and the grounds, although small, are very lovely. It was indeed a beautiful day and I couldn’t figure out how come there was such a thick frost when the sun was so warm!
Beetle | 17 February 2008 at 21:14
Wrinkles in my thumb – where?
granny grimble | 17 February 2008 at 22:27
Oooooh! You cheeky devil!
I must have imagined it, mustn’t I?
Beetle | 17 February 2008 at 22:46
Ha ha ha! Of course :O)
Spider | 18 February 2008 at 0:18
Babs it all sounds fantastic, I would have loved to have been there, Both the Church service (although I cannot sing) and the walk.
Poor you, your wrinkleless thumb looks very sore :O(
It is strange you wrote a blog on your service as I was going to do a small one on tonight’s service. I shall just email it to you all, BUT I will start a regular diary blog on my return from England on request.
Tina xx
Beetle | 18 February 2008 at 0:28
Good idea :O)
GoldAnne | 18 February 2008 at 20:18
that sounded fab!!!!!
and your poor thumb im so sorry
xxx
Jeanette Spain | 23 February 2008 at 20:55
What a wonderful day you had and spring looks like it is on the way, We know it has arrived here because all the almond blossom is out, early this year.
Your poor thumb looks so sore, hope it is not to painful for you and heals soon.
Jeanette Spain