tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43864141702394977112024-03-13T05:11:46.810+00:00Rev Dr Susan RamsaranChurches serving the people of North Tyne and Redesdale in NorthumberlandRev Dr Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14355433392350491495noreply@blogger.comBlogger1173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-54703951587326778532020-06-18T22:57:00.001+01:002020-06-18T22:57:19.003+01:00Trinity Sunday<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Sunday 7th June 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">An icon which helped to illustrate my short talk during the twelfth live-streamed Sunday worship which I have conducted online for parishioners of North Tyne and Redesdale [See separate "Thought for the..." page] It's interesting that in my old age and without particular interest in technology, I have been prompted by lockdown to take advantage of new (for me) techniques.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-90501644063566019272020-06-08T15:52:00.001+01:002020-06-08T15:52:03.668+01:00Food parcel delivery<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Sunday 7th June 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Off to deliver morale-boosting treats of slightly exotic food parcels from Age UK after conducting Sunday worship by Zoom from the computer desk in my study.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-87959853388613494552020-05-31T16:11:00.003+01:002020-05-31T16:11:57.793+01:00Getting observant in lockdown<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 27th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In lockdown there's a limit to the variety of scenes to photograph; but recording the development of early summer brings me to familiar favourites. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Here is the lime tree at the entrance to the Rectory glebe, arching over the track with slightly less grace than before its matching neighbour was tragically felled. Soon the way through to the paddock should be scented with linden blossom and buzzing with bees. This is a lighter scent than the intoxicating poplar which flowered earlier at Catholic Corner (the local name for the road junction outside St Oswald's Roman Catholic church).</span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-2933023864929244622020-05-19T18:19:00.002+01:002020-05-19T18:21:27.010+01:00Things come together<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 13th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The weekly walk took me partway up Dunterley fell, passing a signwriter who was at work hand painting lettering on a vehicle. I discovered that he had in the past done church notices boards and was willing to bring ours up to date. As I continued to walk home, I encountered (at appropriate distance for a shouted conversation) the relevant Churchwarden with whom I made an arrangement for a phone discussion.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> These are the kinds of apparent coincidences which happen repeatedly during normal life when I'm constantly out and about parish visiting and meeting people in the natural course of events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-67761012312305432382020-05-09T20:48:00.003+01:002020-05-09T20:48:49.485+01:00Life in lockdown<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Saturday 9th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Northumberland National Park ranger arrives with a consignment of parcels from Age UK. So I start to go through a list of residents in the parish to decide who would appreciate receiving some treats and groceries to vary the monotony of housebound isolation. (Meanwhile fourteen boxes are stored in my hallway -- which must be distributed before the contents get stale.) </span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-65942747322089132032020-05-08T16:35:00.002+01:002020-05-08T16:37:30.921+01:0075th anniversary of V.E. Day<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Friday 8th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">...during which I read the names of the fallen which are inscribed on the ring around the carving of Mother and Child on the font cover. (This is the War Memorial in St Cuthbert's Bellingham.)<br />Then back into the Rectory for the VE Day cake made to Churchill's favourite recipe...</span></td></tr>
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Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-92150965913505018592020-05-07T21:48:00.001+01:002020-05-07T21:48:18.172+01:00Community life at a distance<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Thursday 7th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Even if we cannot get near to each other, neighbours wave at 8 o'clock on Thursdays when we go outside to applaud health workers and others who keep us going during the pandemic. </span></div>
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For me the other highlight today in a life of confinement was being allowed to go into church to say Morning Prayer there for the first time since mid March. Otherwise the day has been spent at the computer with morning and afternoon meetings online and admin in the evening.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-66339455410648331572020-05-07T21:37:00.001+01:002020-05-07T21:37:22.132+01:00Day-off cake<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 6th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Made to the National Trust's recipe for Winston Churchill's favourite cake, this one is now ready for marking the 75th anniversary of V.E. Day on 8th May. On Friday the church bell will be rung 75 times after we have kept a silence at 11 o'clock. The cake will get eaten later in the day.</span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-3467849134407546002020-05-05T11:14:00.000+01:002020-05-05T11:14:01.875+01:00Summer is on the way<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Monday 4th May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once the trees start to come into leaf, the summer landscape appears at a great rate in the upper North Tyne valley. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> My administrative spring-cleaning is far less rapid, as I sort out the remaining copies of the May parish magazine for complex distribution: they are left under the protection of the overhanging roof of the outbuildings to be collected by appropriate people observing social distancing. There are also messages about Age Concern parcels and church finances as well as an online discussion about how to move the St Cuthbert's Three-Church Trail project forward. </span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-81111670498121590102020-05-05T11:00:00.002+01:002020-05-05T11:32:54.190+01:00Enjoying isolation<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Friday 1st May 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a lovely break from sitting at the computer fielding between fifty and sixty e-mails. Some of those related to my taking my turn to set the online Friday Quiz for the community in Tarset. (Most of them were more straight-forward work.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">After the concentration of live-streaming worship from my study, I had furniture to move back into its place as well as sorting papers and creating some domestic order. Outside the kingcups were flowering on the Rectory glebe.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-13097879812881985392020-04-27T21:24:00.002+01:002020-04-28T20:04:07.032+01:00St Mark's Day<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Saturday 25th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Rectory Multi-tree, which I have long promised to photograph when conditions were right. There are actually five young saplings growing from the stump of the ancient beech. Only the silver birch, rowan and fir tree show in this picture.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> St Mark's day brings back various memories including one prompted by today's Bible reading: when St Paul and Barnabas were on one of the missionary journeys described in the Acts of the Apostles, they wanted John Mark to travel with them...When I began to explore the possibility that I had a vocation to be ordained, I consulted a wise priest and exclaimed "I don't want to!". His comment was "What would have happened if Paul and Barnabas had said that?"</span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-27861141089726745612020-04-23T10:18:00.001+01:002020-04-23T10:18:29.220+01:00Weekly walk<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 22nd April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's supposed to be "daily exercise" during national lockdown, but I only manage to fit in a walk on my day off. So, today, up the hill to look back down on Bellingham -- rather out of breath as it seems steeper on foot than on a horse!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having spent two days at my desk sorting papers and co-ordinating things across the parishes, I take a break to pick some rhubarb before returning to preparations for tomorrow's live-streamed worship.</span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-18148801145425617522020-04-15T21:41:00.001+01:002020-04-15T21:41:11.338+01:00Spring in isolation<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 15th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-58634442188692484832020-04-14T16:07:00.000+01:002020-04-23T23:16:13.838+01:00Bank Holiday<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Monday 13th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Easter Monday was domestically the same as all other days during lockdown, but we enjoyed a gift of traditional Pace </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Pasque = Easter) eggs which had been hard boiled and dyed by a parishioner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The main pressures were lifted for a few hours as the phone and e-mails stopped for the first time for a month.</span></div>
Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-61327847327286652552020-04-12T16:48:00.003+01:002020-04-13T09:18:23.298+01:00Easter Day<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Sunday 12th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unable to leave self-isolation to go to our church buildings, a congregation of about sixty people tuned in online for a service streamed from the Rectory study, with the music provided by the organist from his house and a Bible reading from a third home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> After the Lenten austerity of no flowers in church (even when the church was open), we brought in daffodils to mark the joy of Easter. We lit the new Paschal Candles (one for each of our closed churches) to remind us of the Christian hope -- as we live in the light of the Resurrection, confident that Christ's rising shows that love is stronger than death -- and giving thanks for God's love demonstrated by the selfless acts of kindness and dedication shown by so many people during this pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is another of my normal routes, which I miss as I sit all day working by computer and phone to keep in touch virtually rather than in person. Tomorrow, though, the virtual congregation should gather in force to celebrate the Easter hope!</span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-40319286346976517162020-04-10T16:47:00.000+01:002020-04-10T16:47:03.450+01:00Good Friday<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Friday 10th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The picture was taken two days ago on my only walk for the last three weeks. I know this route, but it raises the question as to where we are going in life.</span></div>
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Today was a serious day of prayer as Christians remember the three hours during which Jesus of Nazareth suffered death by the Roman method of execution by hanging on a cross (a historical fact). I offered an hour online from noon till 1 o'clock of readings, reflections and music; then joined in the further two hours conducted by other people.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-33843884441173517992020-04-09T21:57:00.000+01:002020-04-09T21:57:58.882+01:00Worship continues in our homes<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Maundy Thursday 9th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-61589595466215959502020-04-08T19:54:00.001+01:002020-04-08T19:54:43.961+01:00Very pregnant!<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 8th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It felt ironic that my first outing since lockdown began was in spring weather to conduct a graveside burial service.<br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The funeral directors bring the coffin past the church. Social distancing keeps them well behind me (the officiating priest) and far ahead of the few family members allowed to be present.</span></td></tr>
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Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-33734750904528195102020-04-06T16:33:00.000+01:002020-04-06T16:34:49.418+01:00Palm Sunday<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Sunday 5th April 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">About 45 people joined in worship online for Palm Sunday. When we are free from lockdown, you can collect a palm cross (blessed this morning) from the local church once it is open again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We hope that next year we can hold the procession with donkey and palm (willow) branches from Kielder Waterside to the Living (willow) Church which had been planned for this year.</span></td></tr>
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Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-57926080030570837822020-04-01T18:54:00.003+01:002020-04-01T18:54:44.481+01:00April Fool?<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday 1st April</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What season is this? No it's not an April Fool: it's about 6 o'clock in the evening and that is a band of cloud, not snow on the hills.</span>Susan Ramsaranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10112664230754156630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4386414170239497711.post-74593264185414571592020-03-30T16:34:00.003+01:002020-03-30T16:34:47.069+01:00Spring still comes<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Monday 30th March 2020</i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spring comes to the Rectory glebe even if nobody else does!</span></td></tr>
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