Heavenhappens

The Little Springtime ~ Palm Sunday I absolutely love Palm Sunday.  One of the highlights of the school year when I was teaching was making palm crosses for STM parish.  It was a joy to teach s...

https://heavenhappens.me/2023/04/02/palm-sunday-2012-2/

At the entrance to the garden of remembrance in my local cemetery there is a startling white cross.  At its base these words are written: In memory of The seven million Ukrainians Who died durin...

https://heavenhappens.me/2022/03/13/this-dark-age/

Since lockdown eased and I am able to travel again, I have embarked on a very personal pilgrimage.  In the past I have travelled with groups or a few friends on pilgrimages to Lourdes.  And in ...

https://heavenhappens.me/2021/09/28/a-window-on-my-world/

I was listening to Rev Richard Coles on his Saturday morning radio 4 show recently and heard him talk about his sadventures. And, I knew exactly what he meant. He lost his partner in December 201...

https://heavenhappens.me/2021/09/15/a-summer-sadventure-part-1/

Summer used to be such an exciting time. As a child in the north east of England, it meant day trips by steam train to ‘the coast’. This was usually South Shields where the sand dunes seemed ...

https://heavenhappens.me/2021/07/31/summertime/

One of my favourite places to visit is the old abbey known as St Peter’s Grange, at Prinknash in the Cotswolds. I have written about it several times before Now that the monks have returned to ...

https://heavenhappens.me/2021/01/07/ship-of-souls/

It is ironic that it took a global pandemic caused by a miniscule virus to show how fragile our world really is, and how interdependent we are. Yet another irony is that, during the pandemic of C...

https://heavenhappens.me/2020/10/10/coronavirus-a-personal-experience-of-covid-19/

Leaving Cheltenham railway station with its newly enlarged car park, almost empty whether through Covid-19 or high charges I’m not sure; it doesn’t take long to observe the great divide betwe...

https://heavenhappens.me/2020/10/05/a-train-trip-to-holyhead/

I am returning to one of my favourite subjects, and certainly one of my favourite places, for today’s blog post ~ Benhall woods. According to records, there have been woods of some sort in this...

https://heavenhappens.me/2020/02/18/the-matter-of-magpies/

I do hope this is not becoming a trend in my blogging, but yet again I am writing in homage to a legend. The naturalist, botanist, environmentalist and conservationist ~ David Bellamy, died yeste...

https://heavenhappens.me/2019/12/13/lost-legends/