Categories: random, places, festivals
Tags: London, Greenbelt, culture, friends, health visiting
Date: 28 August 2006 20:48:02
Thanks for your comment today Ian - I've had only minimal internet access this month, and Greenbelt has had so much going on I've only just managed to get to the internet cafe. I'll do a proper entry when I get back to the Stately Pile (very soon - I've missed it!), but here's a flavour of the month:
* I've been in sarf London seeing lots of friends (including house-sitting for a week for Mary, see "A Raid on the Inarticulate" link to the left), which has been fantastic but very manic as there were a lot of people to fit into not much time.
* I did some culture (Kandinsky exhibition at Tate Modern - well worth a look, it's on for another month if anyone's interested).
* I walked along a bit of the Thames Path that I'd not done before, round the Dome. It was a great walk, although it was a bit smelly.
* I met Cal (of "What's for Afters", see link to the left) and we went to Evening Prayer at Southwark Cathedral. We were relegated to a side chapel, as the main cathedral was full of a Bollywood film crew packing up after a day's filming. Which was slightly surreal.
* I did a monster walk in the North York Moors which was rather fun, if a bit boggy, and I still have the blisters to prove it.
* I've had some Hot Dates (with the same person) :D
* I did a couple of weeks of health visiting in Bermondsey which was a good experience, if a bit bonkers at times as they were so short-staffed so I ended up doing stuff that a bank staff member wouldn't normally have done (like attending a case conference). I was really glad I hadn't forgotten what to do, and in fact I rather enjoyed it all.
* I'm at Greenbelt! So far the only worship I've managed to go to was ... ahem ... Rev Gerald. Whoops. The wibmeet was good fun as usual, though it wasn't the same without Neil or flapjacks (which I ran out of time to make). It's a bit boggy here it has to be said!
I'll write something coherent soon, though after the monster drive back UpNorth it might be a while before I'm totally capable of coherence. I'm just about to go to a contemplative worship thingy, as I'm feeling a bit heathenly. See you very soon :)