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26 posted by clare pooley in churches rural diary 58 comments tags church flowers garden improvements geese goslings hospital appointments lent lent course safeguarding solar panels spring suffolk after successfully finding my way back to my blog i have so far failed to do any blogging i found that i had committed myself to doing so many other things that the time and energy for self indulgence i e writing for my own amusement was lacking we spent over a year sorting out my late mother s belongings and then after the start of the new year we began helping alice our elder daughter move the rest of her possessions that were still in our house up to her new home in sheffield this entailed quite a bit of hard decision making on her part and a lot of trips to the tip and the charity shop for my husband richard when that was done i decided that i might as well carry on the good work and begin a clear out of my own extraneous belongings also going through all the stored bedlinen etc and i had just got going with that when lent began and what a busy lent it was note to self get on with the clearing out i m not sure whether i told you that three years ago i with four other friends was commissioned as a lay elder with licence to preach in my church to be commissioned we have to prove that we have had a dbs disclosure and barring service check done criminal records are checked to make sure we have behaved ourselves recently and we have to take part in a safeguarding training course three years ago i took level one and level two safeguarding training every three years lay elders have to be re commissioned and therefore another dbs check has to be done and our safeguarding training has to be brought up to date this year we have struggled through level three of the training programme we should also be doing a course on dealing with abuse in the home but there are no spare places at present on the on line course safeguarding is important work i know but i think it highly unlikely that i will have to use this knowledge in a real life situation very often if at all it presupposes that we deal regularly with children young people and vulnerable adults we don t in all eleven churches which make up our benefice there are only four children who come to church fairly regularly with their parents we have no youth groups sunday schools or creches we have a choir that meets just before advent to practice singing carols they disband just after christmas we have a hand bell ringing group led by gail the organist the only times that most of us meet are for church services fund raising events and pcc meetings etc there may be some parishioners who have vulnerabilities they do not will not or cannot share with others but as we all know each other quite well we know where everyone lives we know many of each others habits and hobbies and a lot about everyones families i feel that we are in no real danger of being harmed by a thoughtless remark or by being given a hug when we d rather not be touched if we got a visitor or even a new church member glory be that would be different and we would know to behave with care as for any of the other sins like coercion bullying grooming or sexual abuse i really cannot see any of us indulging in those or getting away with it either however as we all know there are some very nasty and devious people about and it is better to be safe than sorry i finished writing up the final part of the safeguarding course ten days ago and submitted the work i now have to wait a week or so to find out whether i have passed i committed myself to reading some of the approved and relevant books and documents and i am making my way through those at my leisure i also have to do some kind of project in the church during the next six months to do with promoting safeguarding oh dear i attended a lent course which met every wednesday evening at the rectory this was quite good fun as we were greeted by bonnie the black labrador on arrival learnt about the desert fathers and mothers had a discussion and a cup of tea and then drove home again at 9 00pm the five minute video we watched at the start of the meeting sometimes speeded up and the narrator s voice changed to our childish amusement i quite enjoy witnessing the drawing out of the nights as i venture out in the evenings during lent we begin in february leaving the house at 7 10pm in the dark and cold often with foggy rainy and sleety weather by the end of lent we leave home in the light with spring weather to the fore which is also sometimes foggy rainy and sleety my friend gail and i spent the afternoon of the day before mothering sunday 15th march at her farm making posies to hand out the next day i took the posies home in water in a couple of her lambing buckets kept them in water overnight in our cold garage and then in the morning prepared them for presenting to the mothers in the congregation or to people who would be seeing their mothers later that day or wanted them to put on graves posies in the making equipment posies in the basket arrival at st george s church st cross richard with the posies view from outside the church what a beautiful day it was gail at the organ before the service practising the hymns you can just see the basket of flowers in front of the altar the spring flowers have been wonderful this year so many snowdrops and aconites then daffodils primroses celandines and cowslips lady s smock stitchwort tulips and blossom everywhere sadly i haven t had much opportunity for admiring them up close on a walk i speed past them in my car on my way to the shops or to church not a very clear photo of the primroses in march taken by my phone we have had some work done on the outside of the house in february last year we had solar panels put up which involved scaffolding at the front of the house this spring we had scaffolding at the back as well as the front of the house we have had almost all of our gutters and downpipes replaced and also the underfelt under the roof tiles of the bottom third of the roof at the front and back of the house and also on the lower roof over the porch utility room and the front of the garage a big and expensive job but a necessary one two weeks ago work was begun to improve the driveway the parking area all the paths and the patio at the back of the house this is extremely messy work and i have found some of the damage done by the large digger to shrubs and plants quite upsetting but when it is done we hope the pleasure of smooth paths and better parking will outweigh the inconvenience solar panels on the roof photo taken last year the geese bring their babies up to the house every day to survey the work going on i hope they are sympathising with me about the state of the garden i travelled up to sheffield recently to visit alice and phil her husband for a couple of days alice hasn t been well and has also had a lot of trouble at work i needed to see her and make sure that she was coping okay she definitely looked very tired and is trying to managed chronic exhaustion but i think she will be alright eventually she like my younger daughter elinor has been looking for a new job but without success so far i have been on a hospital waiting list for months to have someone look at my hands to decide whether i can have surgery to remove some cysts on my finger joints they are extremely inconvenient and sometimes painful i cannot easily get gloves on and find gripping anything very difficult at long last i was asked to attend the hospital a few weeks ago i had lots of x rays and spoke to a clinician who agreed that i can have the worst ones removed he told me exactly what the procedure would be and all the side effects and things that could go wrong a little daunting but i am pleased that he will be able to help me i am now on his personal waiting list i was told in january that i would be called back in april to see if the laser surgery on my eyes has worked or not well april has come and gone and i have heard nothing from the hospital to be honest i hadn t thought that i would be called back so quickly it must have been wishful thinking by the hospital staff that s it for the time being i have been planning a few trips out so i hope to write posts about them eventually and i feel i ought to finish writing up my account of our holiday in brittany that will give me something to do share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr print opens in new window print share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading an update 17 tue feb 2026 posted by clare pooley in idiocy rural diary 51 comments tags blogging foolishness this is just a short ish post to let you all know what i ve been up to during the past few weeks on christmas eve evening i decided that it would be the ideal time to update my contact details on wordpress i have no idea why i should have attempted such a foolish thing at such an unsuitable time but there is no accounting for all the rather idiotic things i have done recently inevitably i got into difficulties found that i had locked myself out of my own blog tried to wing my way through and by that means i sank even further into the morass i then attempted to ask for help and of course as it was christmas eve and most people were busy doing other things the only response i got at first was from the dreaded ai it told me i needed help from a human but as i didn t have a paid account i was not entitled to have a human helper i begged to differ and said that i did have a paid account ai was adamant that i didn t which made me angry unfortunately one can t have a good argument with ai so i gave up in disgust when i next looked at wordpress a week or two later i discovered that some kind soul had sent me a message with some good advice and not only that but a happiness engineer an other real person had sent me a message offering to save me from drowning in the slough of despond they had obviously read my messages to ai and must have had a bit of a laugh but they never let me know unfortunately as the process looked a little daunting and as i was just about to have laser eye surgery and was feeling a little apprehensive i left it for yet more weeks a week ago i felt ready to face the problem and got in touch with the happiness engineers who were wonderful and guided me through the whole process and gave words of comfort which helped me to feel a little better about myself i replied to a couple of comments made by friends and then wait for it clicked a wordpress bookmark i had forgotten to erase at the top of my laptop screen and fouled it all up again last night i erased the bookmark just in case and went through the whole process again success i then found that by changing my email address i had unfriended all the blogs i follow which is why many of you may have noticed that i am now following you again i haven t managed to find all of you and some blogs don t appear to have obvious buttons to click to subscribe or follow via email if any of you find that i have disappeared off your radar please do get in touch if you wish to be encumbered by me as i would like to continue as before it is said that confession is good for the soul and i do feel a great sense of relief that i am now back with wordpress and have told you all how stupid i have been i can go forward into lent with a clear conscience best wishes to you all share this share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr print opens in new window print share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading wenhaston doom 02 tue dec 2025 posted by clare pooley in architecture churches days out rural diary 49 comments tags st peter s church suffolk the doom the resurrection wenhaston it is strange how one can live for years near to places of beauty or interest but never get around to visiting them there always seem to be other things to do and of course these places will always be there won t they and we will always be able to get to them whenever we like yes elinor and i decided to visit one on a very warm afternoon in june this year wenhaston church wenhaston is about ten miles from where we live is fairly near to southwold on the coast and is surrounded by farms and heathland not too far away is bulcamp the site of a battle in the year 654 between the anglian king anna and the mercian king penda anna and a couple of his sons were killed during the battle a workhouse was built at bulcamp in 1764 which then became a fever hospital and has now been converted into apartments a little bleak and isolated for my liking there is a nice pub in wenhaston and i think the choir i belonged to years ago performed a concert or two in the village hall i also had to take alice to wenhaston once a week for guitar lessons for a while plants on the churchyard wall mexican fleabane perforate st john s wort wenhaston church wenhaston church elinor and i had come to see the church which is situated in the middle of the village it is referred to in the domesday book and part of it is of saxon origin for many years it was looked after by blythburgh priory but like lots of churches in this country it suffered much during the reign of edward vi and also during the commonwealth of england under oliver cromwell william dowsing s men visited in 1643 and according to the wenhaston church guide book did a lot of damage breaking the stained glass taking down the carved angels from the roof removing the organ and the font cover destroying the altar hacking the pulpit about and much else besides what they didn t find was the doom which the people of the parish had covered with whitewash many years earlier during edward s reign when he had demanded the destruction of all roods and the abolition of paintings and pictures in church for three centuries and more it stayed undiscovered and forgotten on the rood beam whitewashed and painted over with passages from the bible scale model of the church on a windowsill the bell tower with the ropes lifted high out of the reach of the hoi polloi there are six bells two of which are medieval and probably came from blythburgh priory here are the local constable s manacles for the stocks hanging up in the vestry redundant now of course and there is no local constable any more either i think that is a truncheon hanging there too in 1892 the east end of the church was rebuilt during the dismantling of the roof the rood beam was discovered intact and to still have its original paint and gilding the whitewashed doom was removed p...