in Lincolnshire, to talk to a wonderful group of families in the local Catholic parish, St Mary's. Excellent parish priest, a large and energetic gathering of children on Friday evening, and a most delightful family event on Saturday morning - again teeming with children - which finished with a beautiful Mass and a hearty buffet lunch. Auntie was speaking about Catholic traditions and customs, feasts and seasons, etc...
The family event was held in the parish school, and for Mass an altar was erected and there were small well-trained altar boys, and a fine reader who led us in chanting the Psalm, and we sang the Pater Noster in Latin (I wish more parishes would do this - it's v. important for us all to know this well, not just for Mass but also for general prayers at for the great international gatherings that increasingly play a major role in Catholic life). A really cheery gathering, with such a warm and friendly feel to it - not everyone was Catholic, but all united in friendship and goodwill.
A train ride through England is generally agreeable, and September is such a glorious month...but how horrible, ugly, fearsomely nasty are the great outsize wind machines that now dominate great stretches of our land as you head northwards. It's not fair, no one asked us if we wanted our beautiful country to be made so hideously ugly in this way.
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It's worrying when ideology over-rides engineering. Wind just doesn't generate enough electricity to be worthwhile.
You might be interested in my campaign, "Keep warm the in the pub". I calculated the amount of carbon that is saved by the Thanet wind farm, and its subsidy, and the amount that could be saved by subsidising beer, so people were in the pub instead of turning on their heaters and tellies at home. It works out at about the same. Beer subsidies are just as effective as wind subsidies in tackling global warming.
Exactly right - we are suffering the same blight here in Western New York State. The misguided ideology behind the windmill plague has wealthy and powerful backers and a relentless propaganda machine, that is also poisoning people's minds against genuine clean and safe energy sources, such as natural gas, which would also bring real prosperity to our benighted region. I sometimes think the world's gone mad!
You genuinely can use wind power for drying clothes. Hang them on the washing line, and they will wind dry. But in many areas, that's not allowed. So they have to go in a dryer powered by electricity. If that electricity is wind generated, it's horribly inefficient.
Yes I do so agree about those awful wind turbines. Ugly things. And the countryside of England is so beautiful otherwise. And on a different subject please pray for an Irish Ordinariate, using the prayer to Bl. John Henry Newman especially over these next nine days as his feast day is on the 9th October. An Irish Ordinariate would be a real boost to the Irish Church which so desperately needs new life as well as the Holy Spirit in massive doses to energise it. You can find the prayer on my blog here and check out the sidebar; http://agnusdeihomiliespapalnuncioireland.blogspot.com/
God bless you.
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