My son Matthew is going to Spring Harvest - as a musician. He will be playing bass with Lisa Jayne a week today at Skegness. Here's what he said recently on Facebook: Hey guys. This week I have the privelage of playing bass for the amazingly tallented Lisa Hoyle. We would love it if you …
Category: Huddersfield
Prosperity?
This evening in the Lent Group at Holy Trinity Huddersfield we looked at a passage which contained what is sometimes referred to as the most abused verse in the Bible: Jeremiah 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a …
Reconciliation
I didn't get to the Ash Wednesday service last week, delayed trains and all. but a chance remark in the sermon that day is being felt by some who were there. Wht was said is this: Lent is about reconciliation. Reconciling ourselves to ourselves. Reconciling ourselves to others Reconciling ourselves to God. With all the …
The day the music died.
It's the end of an era. After twenty years of lunchtime jazz at the Head of Steam it has ended. Lunch on the last Sunday will not be the same. The pub has been taken over and the accountants have looked at the turnover. It looks like music is uneconomical. This sort of thing has …
It’s Good News Week.
We've made the news. We being Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, and the news being th local paper. Here's the story. Not only that, we made the editorial column, A few words about respecting graves. The story says: The site had for years been a hangout for nuisance drinkers and drug addicts who peppered the site with …
Harvest home?
We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land. Or do we? Do we even know where our food comes from? Apart from Sainsbury's, or Aldi? As for scattering, we have been using seed drills for over 300 years. That's before that song was even written. Even in rural areas harvest has …
The end of the real lager trail?
Between the railway stations of Leeds and Manchester there is a problem. Lager. What started off as a nice idea, take the train to the pub, has become a nightmare in the villages on the route. The culprit, the Real Ale Trail. Trains The stations of Dewsbury and Stalybridge have a pub that can be …
Making an ass of myself 