New painting: Great St Mary's and Cambridge market, as seen from M&S cafe.

New painting: Clare College Cambridge, with entertaining sky, from the Fellows garden. With thanks to @camdiary for many beautiful reference photos.

If you're using Women of the Nativity during advent you can access the pictures (for a limited period, non-commercial use) from this page:
www.chpublishing.co.uk/books/978178...
Also, we're on the second print run so books should be back in stock!

With @reverendally.bsky.social at the #festivalofpreaching kneading bread. "Creativity can stop metaphors calcifying and help to give them life again."

New painting (acrylic on hardboard)
ID: close up of hands kneading bread dough on a floury wooden board.

There is something really special about holding in your hand for the first time a book to which you've contributed.
This one even smells great.

New painting: Clare Bridge

Another painting I forgot to post! This one is a view down King's Parade from the top of Great St Mary's Church, in Cambridge.

I keep forgetting to post new paintings. Here's one, drawing on a reference photo by Marie Bedard Caton. Acrylic on canvas.

And another new painting - a depiction of St Joseph and the Christ-child

Another new painting: this one's of Jesus College Oxford

New painting: the front view of St Catharine's College, Cambridge (finished last week while I was having covid)

It's that time of year when I share the beautiful thing that a bunch of people* worked together to make out of some words I wrote for Remembrance Sunday in 2018 (with help from John Ireland's tune).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIQA...

*see video description for credits, where to find the lyrics etc

Today was my day off so I worked on a huge painting I'm doing of a large group of women, managing to complete the detail on about 45 of the 60 faces (all different ages, skin colours etc). It feels self indulgent to do this but we all need to defrag our minds sometimes & painting is how I do that.

I think I've realised that my problem with preaching is that I manage to both overthink and underthink at the same time....
(Currently experiencing this in relation to the parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard)

Just had the first duck feeding walk of the new academic year, with several postgrads & one of their children. PhD and Masters' students can still take a break and do something relaxing and fun - and learn that you really can hand-feed peas to a swan.

Well, it made me smile. #thisallyisnotacanon

I'm looking for short stories again! Send me great shorts and flashes about Novembery kind of things: autumn/winter, Samhain, death and rebirth, how people do or don't connect with the seasons. Reskeet for reach pls!

Shoutout to the woman responsible for getting people into the right rail replacement bus at Cambridge Station, who was so warm and friendly and happy that now I feel happy too. Thank you, whoever you are, I wish you were coming with us all the way to Audley End.