Monday, September 19, 2011

An overnight bus...

...to the West Country, and a stay in a b-and-b while I visit some relations. This morning, I dropped in to Mass at the beautiful little Sacred Heart Church in Minehead. There was a surprisingly large congregation for a seaside town on an ordinary Monday morning. A good and happy way to start a busy day...

Somerset all green and cool and gently rainwashed. Bright berries on the hedgerows. Cows sitting down with huh-it's-going-to-rain-so-what? expressions in wide damp fields. Sudden lovely vistas from the bus windows - that glorious view of Dunster Keep, or a surge of wonderfuil rounded hills...

Pottering about on domestic errands. It is over 30 years since I first came to this corner of England and met the family into which I was to marry...

Today's newspapers make me realise yet again what a loopy country Britain is at present. There are plans to abandon the statement on passports announcing the holder's sex - because some lobby group is claiming that some people don't know what sex they are, and are trying to change into being the opposite one.

2 comments:

Manny said...

Urrgh, the whole world is becoming loopy, if it isn't already. Can you believe such nonsense?

Elizabeth said...

Yes this brave new world does seem to have tied everyone up with all kinds of rules and regulations, and prohibitons that we never had before. More and more the modern world is proving Jesus right: "The truth will make you free."