Time well spent, and in the company of good wine.

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Many of you will think I need my head looked at with this declaration, but I find little in life that’s as deeply satisfying and uplifting as a long, slow, ponderous read of the book of Genesis. That’s how I spent a goodly hour or two this afternoon, installed in a walled garden among floriferous plants and on a surprisingly comfortable piece of garden furniture. All that we need to know for life and for approaching death is contained in those short chapters and of course there are a number of ways of understanding this most mysterious and tantalising revelation of the character of God and how things fit together. I wince when I hear him referred to as the ‘God of the Old Testament’, as if he was then to be replaced by the ‘God of the New Testament’. Same God. I wince at a lot of things, including finger nails on a blackboard. Anyway I spent a goody time thusly this afternoon under the cold, Normandy sun, appropriately wrapped up in sweater and heavy coat. A solid red wine accompanied me - Nero d’Avola, not an expensive wine, but one that tips a nod to the warm south, and reminds me that I must revisit Sicily when Etna starts behaving herself. Then the rain came on.