Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

Last Saturday if you walking in the Riverside Park in Huntingdon you may noticed a rather strange sight. The River Ouse had broken its banks and was flooding over the fields on both sides. That’s nothing new, and probably most of us have seen that before. But the field on the Godmanchester side is home to a flock of sheep at the moment, and as the floodwaters rose around 30 of them had become cut off on a slightly raised piece of land opposite the boathouse with the fast flowing river on one side and a massive lake on the other. Take a look at the Christ Church Huntingdon blogspot to see a photo, or there may still be one on the Huntingdon Living facebook page. When I saw them, they were beginning to start fighting and butting each other! Well a flurry of social media posts and photos later and the illustrious whatsapp group of our neighbourhood received a message that eventually a land rover had been spotted and rescue was on the way, though it sounds like it took a ...

 As you listen to this, I will hopefully have finished the Cambridge half-marathon, Sunday 5 th March (as I record this I haven’t done it yet). I’m currently a little apprehensive about the weather, but we’ll see how it goes. One thing that they’re planning on doing at the race is having pacers, people who try and run the race at a specific pace so if you’re going for a time of, say, 2 hours, all you have to do is keep up with them and you’ll do it in that time. Now, I’m not actually going to make use of a pacer on Sunday, because they run at a constant speed, and when I run I tend to set out quite quickly when I’m excited and then gradually slow down until at the end I’m hobbling along to the finish line. But I think it’s a really great idea! A pacer needs to be experienced, they need to know what they’re doing, and to set an example for you – so all you need to do is fix your eyes on them and you’ll get through just fine. Now, Jesus is a little bit like a pacer ...

Can I tell you what our family did on half term? On a sunny Wednesday a few weeks ago we drove down to Finsbury Park where there’s a shop called “Sylvanian Families” that was having a closing down sale. Now if you don’t have young kids you may not know what Sylvanian Families are, though some of you may have played with them as young children, they have been going since 1985. They are small plastic figurines shaped like all sorts of animals: rabbits, cats, dogs, penguins, kangaroos. Each animal has a name and is part of a family. Our kids love them, and spend much of their pocket money on them! Well we got chatting to friendly shopkeeper Rocky at the Sylvanian Families shop and business was booming. I said it must be a great job because everyone loves coming to your shop. He said it was indeed a very happy place to work, though occasionally some children have a meltdown. When this happens, interestingly in his mind, it’s usually the “parents’ fault”, not the kids! If the...