And a very Happy Pentecost to all my followers

Here is a picture of ME near the RED poppies in my garden. SHE was really glad that I didn't squash any of her Cosmos, but I did hear an expletive or 2 when she saw where I parked my bum elegant rear for Whit Sunday.  There is a story here.

When SHE was getting married to HIM in 1972 she helped arrange the Flowers for HER big day at ST James ,Sutton -on Hull ,  a village now home to some ODD THINKERS  but then the intellectual spawning ground for the likes of HER also I think an ODD THINKER.

SHE did a lovely arrangement  in RED and WHITE . She was surprised to see that a fellow Constance Spry  had gone up to her symphony of white and red Gladioli and tucked a Yellow one at the back. SHE was told that it was bad luck to have RED and WHITE flowers together and not good for the wedding. When the others had gone home SHE went and removed the yellow flower. Now nearly 40 years later and still married to HIM , SHE remembered this . RED and WHITE are the colours of Pentecost.  SHE did not do red and white for St Oswald's this week.  It was her turn to do flowers, but the Pink ones from last week were not dead, and Pauline was doing the Stone Altar with yellow and red in memory of her daughter who loved those colours.

We don't DO superstition at ST Oswald's anyway now that we have had a sermon about it.

I however knew that SHE wanted really to let people know that Pentecost is very important, and that if we all prayed for the HOLY SPIRIT to fill us then the Church would not have to rely on Rowan Williams and Victoria Coren to tell it how it is.  So I sat near the RED poppies for her, and will do so again when the White Cosmos have decided to flower.