Anyone know what this is?

It's growing in the Rectory garden in a mass of different plants. It looks as though it's been cultivated (?edible?) and I don't want chop it out if it's something interesting.
 

What goes round comes round

The service to licence me as Priest in Charge is Sunday 7th November. I thought that as it's bonfire weekend we could follow the service with a bonfire celebration. I imagined that I was coming up with an innovative idea - something new and different.
However I've recently got hold of some old copies of the Parish Magazine and to my suprise I see that when, after restoration work, Hanley Childe Church was reopened in November 2000 the service was accompanied by a bonfire party!

I should have remembered the words of Ecclesiastes
Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.

And perhaps that's a good way of understanding church ministry - looking to see what has already been done, what has worked in the past and what can be tweaked to work in the future. I think there's somethjing about rediscovering what has served the church in its 2000 year history and looking to see what will work in the future.

They've made a start

Not a very big start, but at least they've started work on the rectory. Hopefully they'll now crack on with the  work.

First of our possesions makes the move.

Yesterday we moved the first of our possesions up the hill to Hanley Broadheath.  And it was  - a compost container!   We spent the afternoon in the garden. The diocese have got someone to do some of the gardening work, but we reckoned it needed a bit extra. So here's the composter, full of grass cuttings. I know that grass on its own doesn't make good compost, but it seemed as good a thing to do with the clippings as anything.


The builders are supposed to be starting on the repair work any day now. We're getting carpets ordered and removal firms are coming today and tomorrow to give us some prices for the move. There's one less composter for them to take!