prayer-board

As a bit of an experiment I've started a new blog called 'prayer-board' which is for people to post prayers on to and to pick up prayers to pray. During my time last year in a cathedral that was open all day I was struck by the number of people who came in to sit and pray, sometimes not knowing what to do or how to pray. But there aren't many local churches that are open during the day for people to just drop into. So maybe the virtual world can be a place in which we can ask for others to pray for us. And by posting a prayer we are also praying ourselves at the same time. It doesn't matter which faith or religion you follow, or none. If you have someone or something on your heart or mind that you would like people to pray for then go to the site and tell us.

Find the link in the Blogs list on the right of the screen.

Shades of grey...

Here is a bit of a curiosity, seen out of the kitchen window in Cambridgeshire this morning – a black grey squirrel. There was at least one and I think that I saw two, together with a grey grey squirrel. It isn't a red squirrel, unfortunately, because the colour is wrong and too dark, and there are no eartufts. I have seen black squirrels near Toronto in Canada but haven’t heard of them or seen any in the UK. My guess is that this one is just a genetic oddity, a melanic form of the usual grey squirrel. But is it just a freak that turns up now and again, or yet something else that lands at the door of global warming? And if it’s just a freak, why aren’t they more common? It would seem to be a neutral genetic mutation or sport, neither an advantage or disadvantage to the individual. Does anyone out there know anything about black grey squirrels please?