Gravestones

The sun is shining again and there is definitely spring in the air and in everyone's step. A day for the outdoors, spending an hour this morning talking planning with the nice man from the Diocese about what we could do with the land between the church and the hall. We want to remove a wall and shuffle some gravestones to create a nice place to sit and to link the church and hall together. We had originally planned to build a link building but then we realised you don't need a physical link you can join together with greenery and paviture, horizontal architecture as I have learned to call it.
Followed this formal meeting with an informal wander with three of the young women from our church and Ferdinand who is oneish and wise. He managed to find every puddle and every muddy patch and had a wonderful time as we explored the church's land. It's wonderful to imagine to Ferdinand playing along the riverbank we reopen, walking in the park we create with his girlfriend, pushing his child in a pram, walking along the riverside with his grandchildren to feed the ducks, and maybe even joining other friends and family amongst the beautiful gravestones.
Lunch in the High School is followed by a rather solemn Evening Prayer with Howard in the next door parish in which we talk about life not being complete without pain. Pain being a motivator for the London marathon he is taking part in in two weeks time.
Evening and it was policies and buildings at School Governors and great excitement as our £1,000,000 project takes shape and they're on target for an early finish... ready for Ferdinand to come to the school in two years time.
I wonder if he realises all these people doing stuff for his future... probably not, more interested in jumping in puddles!