Clare went out with Peter and Sebastien yesterday to show them the sights of Cardiff. I had to attend the CBS Steering Group meeting, then write up the minutes, before returning home and cooking a paella for supper. Again we stayed up and talked until late. I had more work to attend to in the office as a result of yesterday's meeting, so Peter and Sebastien went up to the Beacons to climb Pen y Fan. At least it didn't rain, although the summit was disappointingly wreathed in mist. It didn't prevent them from getting some good pictures however.
Today, they went over to Bristol for the real trip down memory lane, meeting up with former teaching colleagues, visiting Hill House where Peter once lived, now gloriously renovated by a man who'd made his fortune from wind turbines, and invested much of it restoring and well as living in a beautiful place overlooking Bristol from Long Ashton.
Now that my Sunday duties have been scheduled for the next couple of months in Cowbridge Benefice again, I've received an invitation from Father Derek the Team Rector to work with him and his colleagues on lay ministry development. He's about to have a change of Team Vicars, and sees this an an opportunity for a fresh initiative in pastoral collaboration between clergy and laity. In many respects the Benefice is already well run and a good deal of its running is undertaken by lay volunteers. Yet, there is always more than can be achieved in the realm of individual care and community work, relying on those whose roots are deeper in their locality than clergy coming in from outside can ever be. I'm looking forward to this.
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