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Journeys of Heart and Mind, many topics - friendly, fun, comment, science, faith, world events, photos, spaceflight...

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Just a brief thought about someone else's message today.

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This is very good
Aforgetfulsoul Just a short message this time, I read the latest from ‘Aforgetfulsoul’ and she expresses very clearly what it really means to follow Jesus. So if you want some good, who…
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November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Today's JHM article is about a single topic - Lego, Cirencester Abbey, and the history of Cirencester. If that sounds implausible... Read on!

#Cirencester #History #Abbey #Lego

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Cirencester Abbey
The abbey’s construction was a huge project continuing throughout the 12th century. To fund the ambitious project, Henry I and his successors, Henry II and Richard I, granted the abbey revenues and…
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November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I posted my Season's Greetings message on JHM earlier today. Whatever you are doing, and wherever you are this winter, go in peace, with joy and great encouragement. See more at jhm.scilla.org.uk/2025/11/10/s...
Season’s Greetings 2025
The UK is a rich mix of people from many cultural backgrounds. That’s why the title is not ‘Christmas Greetings’. Please accept the greetings and replace the word ‘Season’ with whatever you like.…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I highly recommend this article by my friend and fellow blogger, Christopher Dryden. Do take a look:

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OTKC 28 – Take Up Your Cross
Following Jesus was never meant to be a comfortable life decision to improve our happiness or reputation. It was — and still is — a call to surrender our lives completely to Him. Jesus does not sof…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Life, death, resurrection - the latest post on JHM where I write about the #obvious and the more #obscure, the #measurable and #unmeasurable.

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Life, death, resurrection
Unlike life, death is stable. It’s not often that you see a dead body come alive again. That would be resurrection, it’s not something that we expect to see happening regularly (or at all)!
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November 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I've just posted an article on SpaceX's Starship program. Block 2 has run its course with some amazing achievements, now Block 3 has started and might even make it to Mars in 2026. jhm.scilla.org.uk/2025/10/29/t...
The nose of SpaceX's Starship with movable flaps
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I have a problem, I'm away from home in hospital and can view my blog posts on JHM, but I can't access my domain name to edit my posts, nor can I access One.com where I manage my DNS settings. So can't edit posts or create new ones. It's frustrating, but I hope to be home soon to try from there.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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It's 14th October, For JouneysHM that can mean only one thing - it's time for another Blast from the past - number 35! The highlighted topic is 'Watermoor Nursery' where the family business produced herbaceous and alpine plants for sale.

#History #Cirencester

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Watermoor Nursery
Entering the long gone wooden gate you would have seen the potting shed on the left and beds edged with lightweight breeze blocks and filled with crushed clinker on the right. This was the standing…
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October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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A constitution for the church! Why? I felt the need to begin putting some words on paper to better define what we mean by church. Here's a start...

#church #Jesus #constitution #definition

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A constitution for the church
A good start would be to state that church is defined by everything that Jesus is and does and teaches and by nothing beyond that.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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@scilla.org.uk I've been reading Tim Berners-Lee's latest book 'This is for everyone'. Really enjoying it, the history of the web so far with all of the good, bad and ugly of trying to keep it open and safe from misuse, mismanagement etc.

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Book sources - Wikipedia
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October 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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@scilla.org.uk Another good sky this evening, very colourful
The sky tonight looked like a watercolour job. There must be some high altitude particulates out there to create a sky as red as this.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Image of the day 178 is live

#Light #Water #Life #Spirit

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Tree shading
Put an upturned bucket over a patch of grass in your garden. Lift the bucket every day and take a look, then re-cover the patch… How long does it take for the grass to die?
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October 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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My contribution to this evening’s Locally Sourced Comedy ‘B’ themed raffle.

From 7.30pm at Little Drop of Poison on Fore Street, Exeter. It’s Exeter’s premier new material comedy night largely funded by a raffle-based economy. Come along it’s always a great, unpredictable night.
It’s a drawing of a badger with a small crown with the caption “The correct way to address a badger is Your Badgersty”
September 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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My latest blog post, Mosaics underfoot, is not what it seems, you'll need to read it to find out why...

#Roman #Mosaics #Cirencester #Iotd

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Mosaics underfoot
Walking through the Corinium Museum is not just a walk through history; it is a pilgrimage into the very nature of human experience. These mosaics remind me that we are connected to the past not ju…
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September 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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What happens when you see a reflection on water? Much more than you might think!

#Reflection #Vision #Eye #Brain

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Cloud reflection
Just from this image the brain understands there are ripples on the surface of the water and from past experience will also know that these ripples will be moving.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Half way through September so it's time for another Blast from the past. Here it is...

#BlastFromThePast #JHM #History #Cirencester #Family

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Leaving Liverpool
By the end of the month they were in a Bombay transit camp and able to visit the city, armed now with Rupees in place of the sterling cash they’d handed in aboard the ship. (1945)
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September 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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We moved to a new home in the east of England and quite a lot happened in term of my life with Jesus.

#Church #Housechurch #Elders #Allegiance

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A moving experience
From my longer perspective today at seventy-seven years old I can see that what seemed a minor difference between me and the Open Door elders is in truth a yawning gulf. It’s not just that I …
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September 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My lion picture is now a wooden jigsaw! My sister is amazing.

#Lion #Jigsaw

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Latest news on the Lion
I was able to put the puzzle together during a recent holiday in the Lake District. A jigsaw is a family tradition for us every year, we usually do a 1000-piece, commercial cardboard puzzle but I&#…
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September 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Any idea where the smallest police station in the UK is? Or the smallest in the world? Look no further! Then we consider how small a church could be, and discover churches are not measured the same way as police stations.

#Small #PoliceStation

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Smallest Police station?
However, a quick Google search turned up an even smaller one in Trafalgar Square, London. So Watchet has already lost its brief claim to fame!
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August 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Here's part four of my personal story of journeying through life with Jesus - 'Pear-shaped'.

Things don't always go to plan in life, but even difficulties can result in unexpected blessings.

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Pear-shaped
Teaching is not a bad thing, it’s an essential thing. A well-balanced community living in Jesus’ presence needs to receive truth from apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoral and teaching gifts…
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August 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The latest from JHM is about the Lake District and its formation over the last half billion years, with some additional ponderings about human life.

#LakeDistrict #Formation #Ordovician #Keswick #Ambleside #Skiddaw

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The Lake District
We cannot know exactly what this area would have been like when it was full of active volcanoes, but we can get a rough idea from modern subduction regions on Earth today. Under the Mediterranean, …
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August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Living fossils - Curious cases of living forms that closely resemble fossils from millions of years ago.

#Fossil #Biology #Geology #Life

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Living fossils
Living fossils can be found and recognised over long periods of geological time, and appear very similar throughout. And they may have little diversity, in other words the species in the group all …
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August 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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@scilla.org.uk - I've just posted part three of 'Developing faith' and added an index. I've made a start on part four and I'm calling that 'Pear-shaped'. You'll see why in due course.

3 - Community spirit

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Community spirit
We didn’t see ourselves as a house church, more as a group of local believers from a range of denominations all wanting to be part of the exciting revival going on in the UK at the time, open to th…
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August 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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It's almost the middle of the month, so a couple of days earrly here's the next Blast from the past

#history #family #AutoBio #Cirencester #Bristol #Yatton #StNeots

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A shop and a cricketer
Charlie Barnett was a famous test and county cricketer … when he retired from cricket, he set up a business in Cirencester, selling fish, game, and more exotic items such as seagull eggs (195…
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August 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The apostolic gift - Apostolic people get troubled and upset if they see people veering away from the truth set out by Jesus and taking control of church life. They know church should never be controlled by people, but by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ.

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July 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM