Stephen Lynas
@sblynas.bsky.social
Somerset. Church (mostly Anglican). Railways. UK politics.
Retired C of E priest, also the retired General Synod blogger known as 'bathwellschap'
Retired C of E priest, also the retired General Synod blogger known as 'bathwellschap'
A little reminder of the Churches Mutual Credit Union - sensible loans to support ministry!
For those with the resources, an ideal way to support other people - by investing with CMCU.
Not just for #CofEpeeps
Car loans and loans to buy an electric bike, for example.
www.churchesmutual.co.uk
For those with the resources, an ideal way to support other people - by investing with CMCU.
Not just for #CofEpeeps
Car loans and loans to buy an electric bike, for example.
www.churchesmutual.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A little reminder of the Churches Mutual Credit Union - sensible loans to support ministry!
For those with the resources, an ideal way to support other people - by investing with CMCU.
Not just for #CofEpeeps
Car loans and loans to buy an electric bike, for example.
www.churchesmutual.co.uk
For those with the resources, an ideal way to support other people - by investing with CMCU.
Not just for #CofEpeeps
Car loans and loans to buy an electric bike, for example.
www.churchesmutual.co.uk
The entities formerly known as HSTs, now @gwr.com 'Castle class', are heading for extinction this year.
Caught this one passing Totnes Riverside on the South Devon Railway, en route Exeter -Penzance.
#UKRailways
Caught this one passing Totnes Riverside on the South Devon Railway, en route Exeter -Penzance.
#UKRailways
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The entities formerly known as HSTs, now @gwr.com 'Castle class', are heading for extinction this year.
Caught this one passing Totnes Riverside on the South Devon Railway, en route Exeter -Penzance.
#UKRailways
Caught this one passing Totnes Riverside on the South Devon Railway, en route Exeter -Penzance.
#UKRailways
I think this applies this side of the Atlantic too... ✝️
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think this applies this side of the Atlantic too... ✝️
I'm not sure Robert Jenrick has quite understood how ventriloquism works.
#UKpolitics
#UKpolitics
October 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm not sure Robert Jenrick has quite understood how ventriloquism works.
#UKpolitics
#UKpolitics
2:00 on Friday September 19th and "The Cornish Lunch" - great name for a special train - passes Totnes Riverside on the South Devon Railway.
Destination was Par. Good thing they were eating on the train as by the time they got there they were half an hour late..
Starting point was Cardiff.
Destination was Par. Good thing they were eating on the train as by the time they got there they were half an hour late..
Starting point was Cardiff.
September 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
2:00 on Friday September 19th and "The Cornish Lunch" - great name for a special train - passes Totnes Riverside on the South Devon Railway.
Destination was Par. Good thing they were eating on the train as by the time they got there they were half an hour late..
Starting point was Cardiff.
Destination was Par. Good thing they were eating on the train as by the time they got there they were half an hour late..
Starting point was Cardiff.
I've read it!
Cheerful, self-deprecating, account of starting a new kind of church community in the shadow of a great Cathedral. Frank about failures and false starts, politely critical of some church authorities, and a good read.
Especially if you are thinking of doing church differently...
Cheerful, self-deprecating, account of starting a new kind of church community in the shadow of a great Cathedral. Frank about failures and false starts, politely critical of some church authorities, and a good read.
Especially if you are thinking of doing church differently...
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've read it!
Cheerful, self-deprecating, account of starting a new kind of church community in the shadow of a great Cathedral. Frank about failures and false starts, politely critical of some church authorities, and a good read.
Especially if you are thinking of doing church differently...
Cheerful, self-deprecating, account of starting a new kind of church community in the shadow of a great Cathedral. Frank about failures and false starts, politely critical of some church authorities, and a good read.
Especially if you are thinking of doing church differently...
An antidote to the flummery, from today's @theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
An antidote to the flummery, from today's @theguardian.com
OK, got round to buying it.
Now I'm going to have to read it...
(No, looking forward to it, @revcharlottegale.bsky.social)
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Now I'm going to have to read it...
(No, looking forward to it, @revcharlottegale.bsky.social)
✝️
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
OK, got round to buying it.
Now I'm going to have to read it...
(No, looking forward to it, @revcharlottegale.bsky.social)
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Now I'm going to have to read it...
(No, looking forward to it, @revcharlottegale.bsky.social)
✝️
The Very Expensive Train (Brittanic Explorer) passes the South Devon Railway at Totnes Riverside.
Blue 66 on the rear, GWR autocoach on the SDR service train.
#UKRailways
Blue 66 on the rear, GWR autocoach on the SDR service train.
#UKRailways
August 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Very Expensive Train (Brittanic Explorer) passes the South Devon Railway at Totnes Riverside.
Blue 66 on the rear, GWR autocoach on the SDR service train.
#UKRailways
Blue 66 on the rear, GWR autocoach on the SDR service train.
#UKRailways
5 minutes before the Northern Belle came over the Cogload flyover from Bristol, a GWR IEP came under it from Castle Cary, forming a Paddington-Paignton service.
#UKRailways
#UKRailways
August 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
5 minutes before the Northern Belle came over the Cogload flyover from Bristol, a GWR IEP came under it from Castle Cary, forming a Paddington-Paignton service.
#UKRailways
#UKRailways
57513 Scarborough Castle leading the Northern Belle Birmingham-Paington trip off the Cogload Junction flyover 19 August 2025.
57314 on the rear.
The whole consist looks amazing, pity about the Mk1 coaches!
#UKRailways
57314 on the rear.
The whole consist looks amazing, pity about the Mk1 coaches!
#UKRailways
August 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
57513 Scarborough Castle leading the Northern Belle Birmingham-Paington trip off the Cogload Junction flyover 19 August 2025.
57314 on the rear.
The whole consist looks amazing, pity about the Mk1 coaches!
#UKRailways
57314 on the rear.
The whole consist looks amazing, pity about the Mk1 coaches!
#UKRailways
Dammit, Martin Rowson got there first. 😬
August 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Dammit, Martin Rowson got there first. 😬
Sneaked along Litchurch Lane today, lots of prep going on for The Greatest Gathering tomorrow.
#UKRailways
#UKRailways
July 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Sneaked along Litchurch Lane today, lots of prep going on for The Greatest Gathering tomorrow.
#UKRailways
#UKRailways
Well, we know what they mean.
But the text of this message conjures up images of a line of broken-down trains stretching from somewhere between Bere Alston and Plymouth and/or Gunnislake.
"All lines are blocked". No, @GWRhelp, they're not. They're devoid of working units.
#ukrailways
But the text of this message conjures up images of a line of broken-down trains stretching from somewhere between Bere Alston and Plymouth and/or Gunnislake.
"All lines are blocked". No, @GWRhelp, they're not. They're devoid of working units.
#ukrailways
July 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Well, we know what they mean.
But the text of this message conjures up images of a line of broken-down trains stretching from somewhere between Bere Alston and Plymouth and/or Gunnislake.
"All lines are blocked". No, @GWRhelp, they're not. They're devoid of working units.
#ukrailways
But the text of this message conjures up images of a line of broken-down trains stretching from somewhere between Bere Alston and Plymouth and/or Gunnislake.
"All lines are blocked". No, @GWRhelp, they're not. They're devoid of working units.
#ukrailways
Nice one in the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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(Please, Luther scholars, don't spoil the joke by telling us what theses 14 and 21 were. Write to the Eye instead. Pedants' Corner awaits...)
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(Please, Luther scholars, don't spoil the joke by telling us what theses 14 and 21 were. Write to the Eye instead. Pedants' Corner awaits...)
July 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Nice one in the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
✝️
(Please, Luther scholars, don't spoil the joke by telling us what theses 14 and 21 were. Write to the Eye instead. Pedants' Corner awaits...)
✝️
(Please, Luther scholars, don't spoil the joke by telling us what theses 14 and 21 were. Write to the Eye instead. Pedants' Corner awaits...)
Interesting interlude at Waterloo after an on-time trip up from Templecombe...
Fire alarm test is clearly announced and implemented, incl. a dummy Station Evacuation message - and the lovely retro call for 'Inspector Sands' to go to a specific point on the station.
#ukrailways
Fire alarm test is clearly announced and implemented, incl. a dummy Station Evacuation message - and the lovely retro call for 'Inspector Sands' to go to a specific point on the station.
#ukrailways
May 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Interesting interlude at Waterloo after an on-time trip up from Templecombe...
Fire alarm test is clearly announced and implemented, incl. a dummy Station Evacuation message - and the lovely retro call for 'Inspector Sands' to go to a specific point on the station.
#ukrailways
Fire alarm test is clearly announced and implemented, incl. a dummy Station Evacuation message - and the lovely retro call for 'Inspector Sands' to go to a specific point on the station.
#ukrailways
Spotted disc in the other place. I really should have gone to bed earlier but I'm glad I saw it before I did.
May 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Spotted disc in the other place. I really should have gone to bed earlier but I'm glad I saw it before I did.
Cracking front page on today's Metro!
April 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Cracking front page on today's Metro!
Hang on, that looks a bit like Meeth's 12-century one!
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April 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hang on, that looks a bit like Meeth's 12-century one!
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Good Friday walk for the installation of three crosses on Lollover Hill, Compton Dundon, in Somerset.
By gum, it was wet and windy...
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By gum, it was wet and windy...
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April 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Good Friday walk for the installation of three crosses on Lollover Hill, Compton Dundon, in Somerset.
By gum, it was wet and windy...
✝️
By gum, it was wet and windy...
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Interesting #CofEPeeps post in an interesting town and village...
Just saying.
Just saying.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Interesting #CofEPeeps post in an interesting town and village...
Just saying.
Just saying.
3/3
More Malestroit.
A doorway with carved figures. The chap with a saw must be Joseph, not sure about the others.
Lovely light through a modern window.
Two remarkable mythic figures from the time of the crusades, covered up for centuries, only discovered ten or so years ago.
More Malestroit.
A doorway with carved figures. The chap with a saw must be Joseph, not sure about the others.
Lovely light through a modern window.
Two remarkable mythic figures from the time of the crusades, covered up for centuries, only discovered ten or so years ago.
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
3/3
More Malestroit.
A doorway with carved figures. The chap with a saw must be Joseph, not sure about the others.
Lovely light through a modern window.
Two remarkable mythic figures from the time of the crusades, covered up for centuries, only discovered ten or so years ago.
More Malestroit.
A doorway with carved figures. The chap with a saw must be Joseph, not sure about the others.
Lovely light through a modern window.
Two remarkable mythic figures from the time of the crusades, covered up for centuries, only discovered ten or so years ago.
2/3
On the other hand. In the less well-endowed town of Malestroit, the modern sanctuary furnishings appear to be made out of MDF.
The pulpit ( Fortunately inaccessible) is a monster!
But Yes Yes Yes to whoever decided to help visitors by explaining the East window!
On the other hand. In the less well-endowed town of Malestroit, the modern sanctuary furnishings appear to be made out of MDF.
The pulpit ( Fortunately inaccessible) is a monster!
But Yes Yes Yes to whoever decided to help visitors by explaining the East window!
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
2/3
On the other hand. In the less well-endowed town of Malestroit, the modern sanctuary furnishings appear to be made out of MDF.
The pulpit ( Fortunately inaccessible) is a monster!
But Yes Yes Yes to whoever decided to help visitors by explaining the East window!
On the other hand. In the less well-endowed town of Malestroit, the modern sanctuary furnishings appear to be made out of MDF.
The pulpit ( Fortunately inaccessible) is a monster!
But Yes Yes Yes to whoever decided to help visitors by explaining the East window!
1/3 ✝️
I have come to realise that church-crawling in France is sooo rewarding- and occasionally challenging.
So...
Fabulous modern altar in cathedral at St Malo. WW2 destruction + Vatican II = splendour.
I have come to realise that church-crawling in France is sooo rewarding- and occasionally challenging.
So...
Fabulous modern altar in cathedral at St Malo. WW2 destruction + Vatican II = splendour.
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
1/3 ✝️
I have come to realise that church-crawling in France is sooo rewarding- and occasionally challenging.
So...
Fabulous modern altar in cathedral at St Malo. WW2 destruction + Vatican II = splendour.
I have come to realise that church-crawling in France is sooo rewarding- and occasionally challenging.
So...
Fabulous modern altar in cathedral at St Malo. WW2 destruction + Vatican II = splendour.
Oh dear, Film4 schedulers having some fun. Early Ealing Comedy "Hue and Cry" is on.
Plot revolves around a 'Beano'-style children's comic called.... 'Trump'.
Plot revolves around a 'Beano'-style children's comic called.... 'Trump'.
March 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Oh dear, Film4 schedulers having some fun. Early Ealing Comedy "Hue and Cry" is on.
Plot revolves around a 'Beano'-style children's comic called.... 'Trump'.
Plot revolves around a 'Beano'-style children's comic called.... 'Trump'.