No fooling here; just some odds and ends.
Our plans for our retreat the weekend of 24/25 April are going well. We have 7 people coming. Most are local students. One is a professor from Texas, who will be in Oxford on sabbatical, and another is a grad student from London. I will make a presentation about the retreat to our church tomorrow evening. We'll see if anyone else comes from that. The important thing about tomorrow evening is that it is a prayer meetiing - very important to pray for things like this.
We've got three scholars staying in the house now, so we are more back to business as usual; it's been too quiet! Lots of big tours coming through and one of my new tour guides got his feet wet with his first tour yesterday.
I'm having tea with Walter Hooper this afternoon to go over a survey of the Kiln's property from 1936. I'm wanting to draw an illustrated map so people can get a better idea of what the place looked like in those days.
We finally heard from Archbishop Foley's secretary about a visit in May. He's going to bring a couple of other ACNA bishops with him! Looks like I'm going to be tour-guide and host for a couple of days. Will be fun.
We had a lovely young couple from East Brainerd to visit for a tour yesterday. He works for Precept and she's a doctor or medical technician of some kind at T.C.Thompson. Great to see some folks from home.
I visited a couple of pubs with Michael Ward last night; he says there's lots of new and good books about C. S. Lewis coming out this year; that's good.
Sheila got to give a tour of the house for a young 10-year-old grand-daughter of some friends yesterday. That was fun. But what a windy day! It's been gusting at 20 and 30 mph for the last two days and nights! Thankfully it's a little calmer today with sun.
The flowers are blooming everywhere! We're getting quite familiar with the classic British primrose. They are in two sizes, like pansies and violets. Spring is springing for sure.
We are rather schizophrenic with our worship these days. When school is in term, we go to Pusey House in the mornings, which is extemely, as-high-as-you-can-get Anglo-Catholic. In the evenings, we go to St. Ebbe's Headington - which is about as low liturgically as you can get! But Pusey House is not holding services since term is out, so this Easter Sunday we are going to go back over to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, to worship with the Queen; just because we can, it's an easy drive, and we know it would make a lot of you happy.
Be sure to also visit my Facebook page, where my "tweets" are posted, in case you want more of an idea about what we're thinking about these days - and any other odd things that might show up; like grand-children pictures!! :-)
Love you all!
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