Today is Lammas Day – Scotland’s traditional first fruits of the harvest day.
Here’s a Lammas Sermon from a couple of years ago.
One response to “Book Review – Re-Pitching the tent”
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One of my favourite books and to read it without saying, “Oh, if only…” is nigh impossible.
Loved this quote:
‘The producers of a recent TV drama set in Edwardian England had to dismantle every sign of modern life when filming in the village street, but inside the village church they didn’t have to change a thing.’
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