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2021-12-08 20:26
Two years is a long time between posts. Wisdom would have it that you should have something to say before you speak. This year has certainly given us much to think about. Relationships… Read More
2018-12-07 22:25
How long has it been?My goodness, time flies by. It seems not a minute since I was nursing a baby in my arms, admiring my husband and 2 year old for their composure and soaking up the deligh… Read More
2018-10-14 18:30
I didn't see the seasons,I missed the glistening, powder puff snowthat lay on the groundonly fading away at Easter.Crashing thunder and a delugepassed me by completely, new green leaves unfu… Read More
2018-10-12 15:13
It didnt go to plan,Much was left undoneYour arrival tore me in twoAnd made me the oneTo care for youIn every waking hourTo mind you with your brotherTo teach you two to love each otherAnd w… Read More
Woodland Resurrection
2018-04-02 19:17
At Epiphany I started the journey - the woodland CAL to create a double bed blanket for our cosy home.  I set out to turn my project into a mini pilgrimage - my days of walking the hill… Read More
In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb...
2018-02-23 22:00
The meteorological winter ends on the 28th February this year, whilst the astronomical winter will officially end on the 20th March 2018. Usually, I would feel more inclined to yield to the… Read More
Woodland Epiphany
2018-01-08 21:15
The old oak swing, near homeEpiphany is one of my favourite feasts. I did not make it to Mass this Sunday - that happens so often now I have the small one to care for, I used to be able to c… Read More
Light The Advent Candle
2017-12-09 21:10
Christmas is doing that usual thing of being too far away for ages, and then arriving all too quickly - sneaking up at the last minute.It is a time of year when, of course, I think about my… Read More
Harvest And Archangels
2017-09-29 20:41
Michaelmas. I can never explain how much this feast means to me. It is the name of the home of my parents, the feast of the school in which I rekindled a teaching career, a moment at the cru… Read More
A Proper Job
2017-05-03 18:46
I recently remarked to Mrs Cloister that Spring seems to be hurtling by at a very unforgiving rate. We’re just about keeping pace but the garden seems to be mocking us for our ‘d… Read More
Growing Season
2017-04-30 20:51
If there is one thing that makes Mr Cloister happy, it's growing things. And, now that 'growing season' is upon us life at the Lodge House is chaotically delightful. We are not in dange… Read More
Advent Approaches
2016-11-16 21:53
"Advent fast approaches and I've accomplished nothing", so says my husband - but he doesn't mean it. It is just that living in a #lodgehousechallenge# is, well, truly challenging. Take for e… Read More
2016-09-29 19:34
One year.One year you've been in my arms,not counting the monthsyou grew inside me.One year and nine months -let's face it -you didn't knowyou weren't me,until one day -you became you -&nbsp&hell…Read More
2016-09-29 19:31
  Hallo all. It has been a while, but #lodgehousechallenge is going strong! We have a very peaceful life in the woods. Even when we are both working we come home, cook the dinner… Read More
The Garden Journal
2016-08-14 20:30
Everyone says we should keep a garden journal. The purpose I suppose is to record progress, and have a record of which plants went where year on year, and how they performed. I am a prolific… Read More
The Chaos And The Calm
2016-08-08 20:22
Anything called #lodgehousechallenge has to have an element of, well, challenge. And so began our journey into the lodge house. Moving day arrived, and the vans pulled up, G and I still hurl… Read More
Ab Initio...
2016-07-21 21:20
It's tomorrow. We officially become tenants of the Lodge House at midnight tonight. G is picking up keys in the morning. After that, despite the excitement, everything will be fairly humdrum… Read More
Good Vibrations...
2016-07-08 21:06
It is exactly two weeks until we move. Excitement is not the word. I think both G and I are suffering from that childhood experience of moving through time as if we were wading through jell… Read More
Lodge House Challenge
2016-06-28 19:09
Perhaps parenthood has changed my husband and I irrevocably.Not perhaps.Let me start again.Parenthood has changed my husband and I irrevocably. We seem to have suddenly developed the capacit… Read More
2016-03-10 21:08
I often cook and bake with little Bertie. It's chaos, but fun. When I'm in the kitchen, Baby Cloister is on the work surface in his bouncer, and we play the 'Mummy is pretending she is on a… Read More
2016-02-23 15:56
There's a lullaby I sing Bertie, you'll know it:Hush little baby, don't say a word;Mama's going to buy you a Mockingbird,and if that mockingbird won't singMama's going to buy you a diamond r… Read More
2016-02-23 15:14
I adore being on Maternity Leave with our beautiful son. Each day is a new adventure in growth, giggles and development. Each day I have faced new challenges and, together with my husband an… Read More
2015-12-20 19:23
'Prepare the way of the Lord' cried John the Baptist in the wilderness. Get ready! The time is coming! How many of us find that Christmas creeps up every year?  We do not see it coming… Read More
2015-10-04 15:45
Time flies when you aren't paying attention. At least, that's the way I feel about it. Nothing much has changed since I last wrote. Perhaps that is why I write less these days.Last Saturday… Read More
2015-07-22 17:58
My Da, Bob Hutton, died on 22nd April. It came as the most terrible shock I have ever experienced. I still cannot think or talk about it without crying. I think about it as the day I stopped… Read More
2015-03-21 20:53
I have thoroughly enjoyed Lent this year. Mr Cloister and I have been spurning meat most days, and working our way through Hugh Fearnley Wittingstall's Veg Everyday and Sally Butcher's Veggi… Read More
2015-02-22 17:33
Back in 2010 I wrote a series of reflections on the Stations of the Cross. Here is an index to the contents. Behind each link is a short series of readings, thoughts and prayers. Perhaps you… Read More
2015-02-22 17:27
I cannot quite believe we are here already. The beginning of Lent is always special to me, I long for it and look forward to it. Some may say this is odd, but I have always been that way. I… Read More
2015-02-22 17:26
This time last year I wrote about 'celebrating a future that had yet come to pass', it was busy time and I was running here and there, looking after my parents, travelling to see my loved on… Read More
2015-01-01 15:13
Ordinarily I would listen to Ave Maria by Gonoud, Schubert or some such today. I love the fact that the first day of the year is devoted to the Mother of God. It is a reminder that salvat… Read More
2014-11-16 18:43
We got married in the rain. I adore the sound of heaving drops tapping on the roofs when I am warm and cosy inside. Rain, I have always felt, brings many blessings. This is just as well… Read More
2014-11-16 17:56
What a place of blessing this truly was!This is what I wrote in the log book before we left:'On our Wedding Day, 2nd August 2014, my husband noted that the one thing we had always done toget… Read More
2014-11-16 16:44
In August I married the man I love; we have been working together ever since to build our own family cloister! We have a new home, not far from my work but also close to a Guernsey Dairy Far… Read More
2014-08-25 20:06
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. Yo… Read More
2014-06-18 21:18
This week I went into the school chapel. I found there a large silver bowl into which I had poured sand during Lent. It had not been touched since and the sand had gone hard and heavy. The b… Read More
2014-06-12 19:07
Wisdom to learnKnowledge to reasonJudgement to listenCourage to speakUnderstanding to loveReverence to worshipWonder to liveI wrote this some time ago, and this is the third time I have post… Read More
2014-06-10 18:57
I have been trying to be more healthy of late. This has led to me looking up and experimenting with new and exciting recipes, ones with less of everything that is meant to be bad for me and… Read More
2014-05-13 19:33
Be gentle, when you touch bread,Let it not be uncared for, unwanted.So often bread is taken for granted.There is so much beauty in bread,Beauty of sun and soil,Beauty of patient toil.Winds a… Read More
2014-05-11 19:21
Spring has sprung. My herb garden looks wild and very healthy. Everything is growing and growing so fast I can almost see it. I wish I had time to stop and watch it. I have been bu… Read More
2014-04-09 19:54
I should be marking Year 7 projects. I've been meaning to do it all day, but procrastination has won again.Yesterday I raided my Ma's garden, and adding to some herbs I had bought previously… Read More
2014-03-24 20:15
Back in October my school held its Staff Retreat. This only happens once every two years, but it is always a happy occasion. This year Fr. Roger Dawson SJ came and spoke with us. His talk wa… Read More
2014-03-17 20:00
I returned again to the Peak District this weekend. We walked from Hathersage up Stanage Edge via Denis Knoll. The sun was shining, and there was warmth in its rays if you hunkered down into… Read More
2014-03-07 20:49
Friday night. The first Friday in Lent. I am exhausted. School has been madness. I thought this evening would never come.On Ash Wednesday I had all sorts of bright, pious ideas of what I cou… Read More
2014-03-07 20:10
So, Ash Wednesday came and it went. In school we had the 'Whole School Retreat'. I have written about that before. It was beautiful, and at times moved me. I am often amazed at the strength… Read More
2014-02-28 22:22
Ash Wednesday is around the corner. I have to say, I am looking forward to it. I am, although to many ears it may sound strange to say it, in need of a good Lent.You know when your house get… Read More
2014-02-24 17:45
'We'll walk this one through together, like true pilgrims'I have been on some amazing walks of late. It is part of the reason my writing here has been so lax. Instead of pondering around at… Read More

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