Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  Well I’m sorry to say folks, that we are due some thundery showers as the week goes on. Some proper rain. Maybe that’s appropriate for the time of mourning that our nation has been through over the last three weeks. But do you remember how dry it was over the summer with all that heat; and how our grass became like “shredded wheat” (as one person I talked to called it)? Apart from a few short showers here and there it wasn’t really until the end of August that we got “proper rain”.  On Thurs 25th August I went for a bike ride to Houghton Mill and the heavens opened and the rain came down. It was wonderful seeing the big plops of rain landing in the River Ouse and thinking how much good it was doing to our crops and to all our gardens. Proper Rain.  In the Bible rain is a sign of blessing. You can understand why: in the dry and dusty middle east, rain can be a lot harder to come by and drought can be a reality as we faced this summer.  In fact there were ...

  The Queen was a remarkable figure who for over seventy years served our nation tirelessly. She met with every Prime Minister from Winston Churchill to Liz Truss just days before she died, she hobnobbed with everyone from heads of state to filmstars, opened parliaments, and had her image on every stamp or banknote in this country. There are 25 awards, 56 places, 85 buildings, 28 hospitals let alone the bridges, roads, Schools and trains that are named after her. Many things have been and will continue to be spoken by great politicians and journalists as her story goes down in the history books. But it’s actually the testimony of the everyday people that I find most moving. A BBC reporter was out on the streets of Hull and here are some of the comments that everyday people made. ·         "England won't be the same country without her," ·         "She's always been there. She's been positive, sh...