Paula Carnell 'Spiritual Beekeeping'
Paula shares how bees have transformed her life. ‘Spiritual Beekeeping' published in 2025, is the story of her personal spiritual journey and the Bee Project she set up on the remote Cocos Keeling islands whilst spending a year living with the Cocos Malay community.
Elspeth Beard
Motorcyclist and award-winning architect.
In 1982, aged twenty-three, she left London alone on a 35,000-mile journey around the world on her 1974 BMW R60/6 without sponsorship, support, email, phones or SatNavs. Come and hear her story…
Issue 53: July–August 2026
Discussions about the level of our financial giving to the Church usually take a fairly predictable course. First, there is the initial glazing over or switching off as the listener/reader immediately and instinctively decides that this is a subject they don’t want to hear about and don’t want to engage with. The shutters come down…
… are you still there?
Pitcombe Summer Party
Pitcombe Parish Summer Party
Saturday 4 July, 12 noon, Hadspen Village Hall
Live Music, Castle Cary Cygnets Majorettes, a seasonal Summer Buffet Lunch, a raffle and a tombola (in aid of St Leonard’s Church)!
Tickets from:
- Gerald Spratling- 01749 812806
- Anthony Hodges- 01963 351429
- Lisa Horler- 01749 813615
£15 per ticket, under 12s free
Issue 52: June 2026
I think that we all know that our task as Christians is to proclaim the Gospel; at least, I hope we all know that. And I think we all know that ‘Gospel’ means ‘Good News’, the ‘good news’ of Jesus Christ.
Issue 51 – May 2026
I read an interesting article recently, written by a consultant podiatrist. It was not about feet, but faith. He suggested that there is a growing receptivity towards faith; a growing willingness to take seriously questions which a decade or two ago would have been dismissed as not being worthy of consideration. He gives as examples of this people who might read books about faith, or listen to podcasts which engage with these questions, or might sometimes seek out a seat in a church or cathedral – not to attend a service, but simply to sit in a place which feels somehow different.
This is the Kit
This Is The Kit’s music places companionship at a premium, so being welcomed into its space feels like an obvious privilege, on record and in concert hall with her stellar supporting cast of Rozi Plain (bass), Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums) and Neil Smith (guitar). And at this current point in our confusing history, continuing to be here at all, to stand tall and make music to gather to, that’s a heroic act. Joyful survival as an act of time-wasting, I’ll take that any day of the week.
