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What a morning for ice
A lovely clear sky
What a difference a week makes!
St Paul's call to Macedonia
With St Paul at Philippi
St Paul at Beroea and an Orthodox Monastery
The wonderful Meteora
En route to Athens
St Paul and the Areopagus
Paul and Corinth, and our Holy Communion in the open air.
Journeying into Holy Week
Holy Week and Easter in Five Objects
Good Friday
Tuesday of Easter Week
What's in a memory?
A visit to Lambeth Palace
A damp retreat!
Comings and goings
Getting things in order....
Personality reflected
Swanage from a new angle
The Dream of Gerontius
"It's good to be back!"
The St Mary's icon (part one)
The lost will be found!
St Mary's icon, part two
Pentecost and a Royal Wedding!
The Countryside in May
The healing nature of gardens
Reading the Psalms
Time to wait and watch
A little gentle gardening
Prayer for Swanage and Studland
Flowers of the Field
We Meet You, O Christ...
All Things Bright & Beautiful
A Few More Discoveries...
Nine months can seem longer or shorter!
Remembering Achill Island
Looking down
Dry ground, blue skies!
All Things Bright and Beautiful
David Poulter's Organ Recital
Seeds and stony ground
The calm before the storm
Pimms and Hymns
Beans climb high as the drought persists
Swanage Carnival
Beholding and Reflecting
Goings and Comings
The Spreading Flame
Only a bus-ride away...
Newly hatched!
Lifeboat Week
Time, contrasts, life.
One memory to another....
A day of music and sunshine
Anniversaries
Early Autumn at Anvil Point
'Ride and Stride' and the Swanage Folk Festival
School class assemblies at St Mark’s Church
The autumn rectory garden
Canon Peter Burtwell's 60th Anniversary...
Random Acts of Kindness...
Approaching Harvest Festival
“Another thought on Harvest Thanksgiving”
Remembering a famous climb
Remembering Thomas Traherne
Fanny Alexander
Preparing for Remembrance
Judith
A lovely autumn day
Gridlock
Home, Memory and Remembrance
99 Poppies
War, Faith and Reconciliation
Young People of Swanage Remember
A tree falls
The rectory garden turns towards winter
Feeling "through-other"
Lucy Menzies 1882-1954
Marking time.
Advent Calendars
An Advent Session of Children's Activity
A Very Special Christingle Service
Handel's Messiah
Does more time help?
A tale of four Christmas Carol Services
Approaching Christmas
Christmas Night
Embers of yesterday
The dawn of 2019
A visit to the Isle of Wight
"On this Island"
Winter, but showing a few signs of Spring
Charles Alan Smythies
Oberammergau 2020
From wet Saturday to reflective prayers
The Consecration of Bishop Andrew
Seagulls
St Brigid's Day
From Rock Cake to Agglestone Rock!
John Ruskin anniversary
The Silence of the Girls
Skylarks above Durdle Door
Snowdrops at Kingston Lacy
If my people ...
The sound of water
St David's Day
Children exploring what is enough...
St Mark's SIAMS inspection result
Praying Together - Lent 2019
Thoughts of Spring
Let there be Light
The Voice of Jeremiah
The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Exciting Musical Initiatives
Signs of the times
Durlston Pleasure Ground Project
Preparing for Holy Week
Seeing what is similar but not quite the same
Good Friday in Swanage
From Easter Day
Joined-up thinking
transferred saints' days
Pimms, Hymns and Songs of Praise
Julian of Norwich and an early May walk
A great catch of fish
Mid May and the Easter Season
The Desert Fathers and Mothers
He's up! He's out! He's still about!
Studland Flower Festival reaches its 50th year
A Visit to Cuddesdon
The Bishop Edward King Chapel
Two hidden windows in St Mary’s - Part 1 - Elijah
Two hidden windows in St Mary’s - Part 2 - John the Baptist
Kite-flying for Pentecost
Surprised by Grace
Sundar Singh
Summer is here!
Activity, Sunshine and the Summer ahead
Solveig and seven others to be ordained deacon in Salisbury Cathedral tomorrow
The beauty of Swanage gardens - and meadows and coastal paths at Durlston Country Park
Silver on the Wing
Reflecting on the Ordination Service
Walking from Swanage to Studland
A wasps' nest and other signs of Summer
Simon Lole's Organ Recital
Swanage Parish Fête 2019
The desert in the city
Wildlife in the rectory garden
Another wonderful organ recital
The Transfiguration
Mary Sumner
Swifts Away
The 'Second Degree of Grace'
Visitors Reflect on Finding St Mary's
Morning Prayer and the Healing of the Paralysed Man
Joseph Edmonds - Memorial Plaque in St Mary's
Focus on the Environment
Last night at Westminster
Psalm 88
The garden is ready for an autumn blitz
Two years on
An evening walk on Swanage beach
The Harvest season approaches
Greta Thunberg’s speech at the UN Climate Action Summit
The language of Parliament
Autumn is here
A musical weekend!
Choral Evensong discussion on BBC Radio Solent
Saturday Children's Explore Session on Animals
An early drive to Wareham Station
Remembering three remarkable lives
A vision evening and school harvest festival
Swanage and Studland Vision Evening - Swanage Methodist Church - 23rd October
General Elections and such like
Early Sunday morning
Return of the metal poppies
Children singing a little of Compline
A quiet beginning
Our bishops remembered in prayer
A drive back from Salisbury
Some words of Dave Merritt and Seamus Heaney
Winter Beauties
Choral Evensong discussion on BBC Radio Solent
Simon Lole did a short radio interview with Tim Daykin on BBC Radio Solent early on Sunday morning to promote Sunday’s "Come and Sing" choral evensong service with Hugh Morris (Director of the RSCM).
Here is the link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q832sfbclid=IwAR3O0QPPNypHCVAPLNV_aG9b9FD8Vj8c7L447YVnzAo8zPPkZ0Hr_MnioIM
I hope it works!
John <Mann