The Priory Church, St. Bees

Check out this true story from the rather macabre web site called the Darwin Awards. “(16 July 2008, Italy) Gerhard, 68, was queued at a traffic light in his Porsche Cayenne SUV. Before one reaches the light, there is a railroad crossing, and Gerhard had not let the queue progress forward far enough before he drove onto the tracks. As you might imagine, given Murphy’s Law, a train was coming. The safety bars came down, leaving the Porsche trapped on the rails. According to witnesses, it took the driver awhile to realize he was stuck. Finally he jumped from the car and started to run–straight toward the oncoming train, waving his arms in an attempt to save his expensive SUV! The attempt was partly successful. The car received less damage than its owner, who landed 30 meters away. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful. The moral of the story? Momentum always wins.”

I must confess, “momentum always wins” was not the moral that came to my mind in reading this story. The basic physics behind this story would be obvious to anyone with any sense whatsoever. There is no ‘moral’ in such basic physics. The actual moral lies in the rather messed up priorities that ultimately got Gerhard killed. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here are some photos following our 8am Christmas Day candlelight communion service.  We hope you have a blessed Christmas and a joyful new year.

St Bees Parochial Church Council 

Minutes of the meeting held on Monday 7^th September at 7.30pm in New College Hall.

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St Bees Parochial Church Council

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council Meeting held on Monday 6 July 2009 in the New College Hall.

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One of the moral low points in my time as a pre-teen involved buying a Christmas present for my parents.  One of the frustrating things I have encountered throughout my life is that it is often the case that people close to me do not realize how beneficial it would be for them to enjoy the same things I enjoy.  I certainly found this frustrating as a child.  I loved board games, though as a family we rarely played board games.  So, I thought I would do my parents a favour by educating them regarding the enjoyment of board games.  I bought them a present which I knew I would like and I knew that they should like (if they knew what was good for them).  I bought them the board game Risk.  The expression on their faces (I particularly remember my dad’s face) was something like tired disappointment.  They knew what I was up to and knew that I gave no thought to their interests whatsoever.  But they also knew what I was capable of as a child and so were not entirely surprised.  It did not spoil our Christmas, because they were parents of immense patience and grace (they had to be…).   Needless to say, we did not experience long nights of family bonding playing Risk. I was not too young to feel a tinge of regret by acting so selfishly.
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An old friend of mine had an interesting way of remembering where he put his keys. Whenever he put his keys down he paused and yelled at them and pointed. This meant that he never forgot where he placed them. It also meant that people were always a little on edge around him too, because this method worked to help him remember other things as well, like how to remember what you have been sent to fetch from an adjacent aisle in the grocery store. Whatever it takes, I suppose. I find my own memory is a very fickle thing. I often cannot tell what things I will be able to remember easily and what I will forget. There is no correlation between remembrance and importance. I can easily remember the least important of things, but forget the important things. The old saying, ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ applies to many of us I suspect. If there is something very important which we need to remember we may write it down, or do something which helps us remember.

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