Zoe and Luke

Zoe's current favourite person gets an intense hug!

River Torridge

Tarka trail

We're walking to Great Torrington. Nice walk. Great cycle route.

Nativity at St Phil's

A lovely occasion as usual. A great start to Christmas Eve and the children did really well.

Sunset over Chorley

Word became flesh

Image from our prep for our Christingle this evening.

Martin and Ana

Married in Alaska but back in Manchester for a wedding blessing with friends and family. I was both priest and rabbi on this occasion - a new experience for me!

Our Zoe in school performance

Chatsworth the musical.

Members of BBC Phil at St Phil's

Another fantastic concert.

Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam band play Sacred Trinity.

Good stuff.

Large walking bag.

We've got some new bean bags for Trinity. This is one of them going from the school (where I had them delivered) back to ours. The little legs are supplied by Abby.

The sun is shining.

It's a beautiful November day.

Zoe's birthday treat

We've gone to Chester for the day and here we are on the river.

Fireworks at Buile Hill

A fantastic display again. If anything it perhaps went on a bit too long.

Fireworks at Buile Hill

Bonfire at Buile Hill

Bonfire at Buile Hill

Bonfire at Buile Hill

Waiting for Johnny Marr

He's lecturing tonight at Salford Uni. Smith's T-shirts have come out but i wonder if this one was bought today!

Stunningly ugly bridge

This is Alderley Edge station with a very poor bridge and an uncared for feel. Sad. I suppose it is good to know that places like Alderley Edge don't get preferential treatment but we badly need a lot of investment in our train stations.

Spooky goings on.

It is Halloween as well as Abby's birthday.

Wild mushrooms

View from Alderley Edge.

Great day out but quite cold.

Elbow with balloons!

Simple enough but very good fun.

Elbow again.

At the Apollo. Lovely gig. Part of their 'lap of honour tour'.

A prize for the first person to tell me the mistake in this.

You can see this in the timeline at Salford Museum.

Launch of Salford music map

Nice event and something was happening over there.

A quiet song

Mind you he already said good night and then surprised us by coming back on...Oh, how we love these little rituals... "This is our last song" (no it isn't).

Feeder at the Apollo

Ok this is becoming a gig blog, but here i am seeing Feeder and they are excellent, as they always are.

Fell Clarinet Quartet

In concert at St Phil's. Very good.

British Sea Power at the Ritz

Brilliant in places. Quite mad in a good way. I'd prefer it though if they talked to us a bit more. When they did the sound wasn't very good. Enjoyable gig though.

Music at St Phil's

Marchini String Quartet and friends. Awesome.

Unconvention at Trinity

This is Down the Tiny Steps.

Michaela with her medal

She completed the 5 k in less than half an hour. And got a prize for 2nd highest fund raiser of the day. Well done!

Michaela's run

Tree athlon in Heaton Park. In aid of trees for cities.

We've seen the light!

Ting Tings at the Academy

I'm on the guest list which is pretty cool, but they are our very local band. Very Good so far but I'm intrigued by the view from here. You see all these little lights as people record it on their phone to post on youtube!

Labyrinth at St Phil's

One comment from a surprised punter was: 'I feel really chilled. It was good.' We're glad to be of service!

Me as a wood elf

Photo of me taken by eloise. This tree just demanded a photo like this!

Burst of light

Still in Roundhay park. I really love these images.

light through trees

Roundhay Park and the sun is shining through the trees. Awesome.

Roundhay Park

It's in Leeds and it's really nice.

Leeds parish church

We're on a church visIt to Leeds and they're being very welcoming. Nice building too.

New chaplain at Uni

Duncan is standing in while Kim is on maternity leave. He seems all right!

The end

13 hours after leaving Sacred Trinity in the dark, in a mini-bus, we're back. Tired, aching, but feeling good about having done it.

About to enter Salford

Some of these people such as my lovely family have just joined us to walk the last 3 miles or so.

Just crossing M60

Wildlife on the way

MBB canal

At the mo we're alongside the canal. It's beautiful. This is the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal, the same one that they're reopening near me, in Middlewood Locks.

In Bury and the sun is out

And so are henry's legs!

Awesome art

Personally, I love this stuff but Henry isn't convinced!

Pause for breath

Roadside detritus in Waterfoot

The morning after the night before sees abandoned take away containers and an empty champagne bottle!