Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  I’m sure you are aware of the Cadbury’s Creme Egg. It was ranked as the most famous confectionary in a poll in 2019. A Cadbury’s milk chocolate egg (the size of a normal chicken’s egg) with a white and yellow fondant filling. The company makes a staggering 1.5 million crème eggs a day, up to 200million a year. No yoke! Well I don’t know if you spotted the news earlier in the week, but 200,000 of the tasty little beauties were stolen in a raid from an industrial unit in Telford last Saturday. But wonderfully the West Mercia police force managed to track down the criminal, a 32 year old man of no fixed abode, when they stopped a vehicle on the M42 just a short while later. The news feeds had some great headlines: ·         ITV “Police go on Easter Egg Hunt” ·         The Shropshire Star “Police save Easter after theft of almost 200,000 crème eggs in Telford. ·      ...

  My wife and I watched a short documentary last week about some of the most extreme surfing on the planet. When a weather bomb hit the coast of Portugal in February 2022, crowds from around the world gathered at the small village of Nazare to witness some of the most world’s most daring surfers come together. The combination of a weather system in the East Atlantic and Nazare’s natural offshore canyon means that when conditions are right, waves can reach the height of a six story building, and can come hurtling down at 50miles per hour. Some waves have been estimated at 29metres (that’s 89 feet). The result is just breathtaking, and seeing surfers surf down these massive waves, and then get flung like, you don’t know whether to hail them as a hero, or call them a complete nutter. It certainly gives you a greater sense of the power of the ocean. It’s not something to be messed with. In the Bible there is a short poem (actually originally a song) that celebrates God’s a...