Rev Lucy Winkett

The journey of a pilgrim in spiritual sense, is a journey inward, to mine the deepest resilience of your soul. 1/9/22

The government website setup to distribute £50 bike repair vouchers crashed this week because of demand. The scheme is part of strategy to tackle obesity, and of course, getting on a bicycle is good for us physically.

At 5am yesterday, a risen statue appeared at central of Bristol. A slave trader was replaced by Jane Rid, a BlackLivesMatter protestor. She stood on a plane for her way back from a match on 7/6, yesterday she said, this sculpture is about making a stand for my mother, my daughter, the black people like me. The sculptor is Macqueen, who's previous work includes inspirational statue I walk pass many times that was for two years in the Square, Alison pregnant born with a condition means she has shorten arms and shorten legs, she said more than once, I love my body, I'm not shamed of it at all.

I wonder if you like your new online life, there're so many things to like, if you're working, you could be having cup of tea seconds after the meeting ends, no squeezing yourself into packed commuter train. And the choice to dip in and out whatever you like at any moment of the day, is by turn accelerating and bewildering. But I find that my eye hurt, my back gets stiff, I long to look at further horizon than the screen.

The news last night that prime minister Boris Johnson has being moved to intensive care, have caused huge distress to his family and all those who loved him. I know I wan't be alone when I say I will pray for him and for everyone who suffering today.

It was Franklin D.Rossevelt who coined the phrase, "1st 100 days" in the radio broadcasting 1936. And UK politics has in recent years taken on this American benchmark as a useful way to access the impact of an elected government. Today is day 1. The morning after the night before, and we're waking up to a conservative majority government led by Boris Johnson.