Graham Boler's Page

You see, just when you think you've got away from it all, and maybe from God...

Twelve of us went to Florence (Firenze) together to enjoy the sights, the food, the wine and the company. Pete, our keyboardist with a passion for organs, also wanted to spy out the pipes of the many cathedrals.

Amazingly, due to some negotiations by my wife Sue, Pete was allowed to play the main organ in the Basilica di San Lorenzo, the oldest cathedral in the city, one morning after mass.

Th…

24 hours to go - not to Sunday's service - we've temporarily abdicated responsibility to the youth band (plus a couple of 50+ers). We've only done this once before in 5 years - when the whole lot of us went to visit our friends in Germany.

This time, we don't have friends to visit as an excuse. However, we all wanted to go to Tuscany! So we are!

I would like to say this is a spiritual retreat, allowing us to come closer to God and hone our skills ready for years of fruitful serv…

Sunday morning - as you would expect, the team gather for prayer in quiet expectation before morning worship. A baptism party is swelling the decent congregation, and minister Paul is preparing in the vestry.

Saturday night - the band clear up the PA from the dance floor, following another gig for their alter-egos, "Mid-Life-Crisis". It's approaching 1am, and they are still humming "Johnny-B-Good". We've played two 1-hour sets of rock and pop to a heaving mass of 50-year-olds, and we h…