good morning and welcome to the dinery garden in canterbury cathedral on tuesday the 19th of april the tuesday of easter week as our easter celebrations continue throughout this week after the long weeks of lent so we'll begin though with the prayers that we have had every morning for ukraine we know that this is an absolutely crucial time and the huge battle for donbass the donbass region has begun and many many are losing their lives and we are praying for a peaceful resolution undergirding the whole situation with our prayers worldwide and at the same time praying for those who in their millions now have left ukraine to seek safety leaving members of their family behind and some of those behind to fight for the freedom of their own country all of those things going on in what i used to call a theater of war it certainly is that in terms of the fact that we can see what's going on because in modern times the news comes to us very very quickly in shocking pictures so we have those as part of our image of heaven's gifts being offered and we pray for new beginnings and the gift of peace for all at this eastern's easter season but particularly for ukraine and its people we're continuing to look at resurrection stories and when we've said our prayers i've got two short passages of the new testament to read with us today one from john and the other an earlier writing which we'll come to at that time but for the moment bring your own prayers your own intentions and there is in front of me a sea of beautiful large yellow tulips there's no wind whatsoever today and so they're they're lovely petals like ballroom dresses almost or better still like like candles cups with with light in them reaching up to the heavens the thin grey covering to the sky but it's a pleasant morning and it almost makes the tulips more luminous but there's the touch of blue here of the viper's bugloss to remind us of the colors of ukraine as well seeking for peace and resurrection and the white of purity of intention of the pulmonary lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise in your resurrection o christ let heaven and earth rejoice alleluia blessed are you lord god of our salvation to you be praise and glory forever as once you ransomed your people from egypt and led them to freedom in the promised land so now you have delivered us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of your risen son may we the first fruits of your new creation rejoice in this new day you have made and praise you for your mighty acts blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind as we rejoice in the gift of this new day so may the light of your presence o god set our hearts on fire with love for you now and forever amen our psalm on this 19th morning of the month is psalm 96 sing to the lord a new song sing to the lord all the earth sing to the lord and bless his name tell out his salvation from day to day declare his glory among the nations and his wonders among all peoples for great is the lord and greatly to be praised he is more to be feared than all gods for all the gods of the nations are but idols it is the lord who made the heavens honor and majesty are before him power and splendor are in his sanctuary ascribe to the lord you families of the peoples ascribe to the lord honor and strength ascribe to the lord the honor due to his name bring offerings and come into his courts o worship the lord in the beauty of holiness let the whole earth tremble before him tell it out among the nations that the lord is king he has made the world so firm that it cannot be moved he will judge the peoples with equity let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad that the sea thunder and all that is in it let the fields be joyful and all that is in them let all the trees of the wood shout for joy before the lord for he comes he comes to judge the earth with righteousness he will judge the world and the peoples with his truth it's a wonderful psalm a song that speaks of the whole earth in all its beauty and all its life and in all creation singing a new song perhaps each morning a new song the gift of a new day and at the same time these tulips certainly seem to be singing a new song a golden song of resurrection and at the same time the psalmist is much more sure when he says let the fields be joyful and all in them let all the trees of the wood shout for joy before the lord it causes us enormous gladness it also causes us huge sorrow that the wheat fields of ukraine are left unplanted at the moment such an enormous source generally of wheat and the high percentage of how much wheat that europe consumes coming from ukraine so that humankind by war stops the sowing of the seed for new harvests and all of these aspects of life are not just metaphors i think the psalmist really believes as we do that the earth sings a new song to the lord each day and all creation praises him and we are called to in this psalm worship the lord in the beauty of holiness let the whole earth tremble before him and we're called also to tell it out among the nations that the lord is king a wonderful son for this easter season but really just one of the regular psalms for the 19th morning of the month which we say awesome month by month so here we have our lessons for today and i say lessons because i'm going to read two short passages they're both resurrection lessons the first comes from the continuation of the narrative in the fourth gospel the gospel of saint john from exactly where we left off yesterday and mary magdalene has gone back and announced to the disciples i have seen the lord and she tells them what he has said to her and now we come to the evening of that day well we were on the evening of that day yesterday with st luke who chooses to tell and only his gospel tells it who chooses to tell the story of the road to emmaus the two walking along sadly and recognizing when they invite jesus into their home recognize him in the breaking of bread all that we did yesterday together with the new energy they found once they had seen the lord to run back to jerusalem and announce that good news well here is saint john's account of what was happening to those disciples locked away the 11 now in the upper room for fear of jewish authorities verse 19 of chapter 20 of the fourth gospel on the evening of that day the first day of the week the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the jewish authorities jesus came and stood among them and said to them peace be with you when he had said this he showed them his hands and his side then the disciples were glad when they saw the lord jesus said to them again peace be with you as the father has sent me even so i am sending you and when he had said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the holy spirit if you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven them if you withhold forgiveness from any it is withheld just that short passage first of all the room is locked but no locked doors or any kind of incarceration or situation where one feels oneself mentally or spiritually or physically to be locked in in a place by oneself none of that can keep out the risen christ the doors were locked for fear but jesus came and stood among them it's equal to that sentence if i go down into hell you are there also and so many people talk about human situations saying we really were in hell or i felt myself to be in hell it's a metaphor but it's a real metaphor it actually talks about the darkness that helplessness they feel that locked in cannot keep out the risen christ jesus came and stood among them and the first words he says one syllable peace peace be with you why has he said this to the disciples well there must be a certain sense of nervousness amongst them all in terms of when they had last seen him and then having promised so much run away they left him deserted him all his disciples deserted him and fled were told and then one the beloved disciple and at first peter gained the courage to follow where jesus is being taken nevertheless here they all are and the air of tension is that before the air of gladness can begin it's like me or you seeing someone that you know you've hurt and it's your fault and you have a um a situation and shall we say an atmosphere between you and there's a nervousness who actually says the first word to make this better and on this occasion jesus says it peace be with you showing us the way at the same time lest they doubt that it is actually jesus he shows them the wounds and then they're glad knowing that it actually is him and at the same time he says to them again peace be with you so they know that it is their lord speaking to them and giving them peace as the father has sent me now this is different this is a commission so having given them peace he then returns to where he was with them at the last supper saying it's now up to you so as the father has sent me and my task in terms of the word made flesh is over in that way now it is yours and in order that they may carry that through he breathes on them and says receive the holy spirit those were the first words of ordination in the old prayer book when the bishop or archbishop laid hands on the head of the ordinand in order to make them priests rather than deacon receive the holy spirit for the office and work of a priest in the church of god and that is the commission together with the empowerment for that and then he talks about the wonder of the gift if you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven them they sense that forgiveness and it is creative so that in speaking those words of forgiveness they're not your words they are words that come from the holy spirit the gift of god within you so that they are the words of the creator recreating in forgiveness if you don't offer that forgiveness then the intention stays with you and that's a very different atmosphere for you as well as the one needing forgiveness all of this in two small sentences which will be acted out day by day from that moment in the life of the church but we shall see it because of the writing of the imaginative writing of saint luke the evangelist we shall see it enacted in the life of the church as the acts of the apostles is laid out before us in its chapters but there's actually more evidence than that and that's why i want now to go to another reading from the new testament it's a reading from a letter written probably 20 years after the crucifixion not too long ago shorter time than i've been here and people are remembering my memory is very clear of 20 years ago most of yours will be and here is someone writing that down i'm talking about the first letter to the corinthians now we are fairly certain that paul wrote four letters to the corinthians and we have two of them the first letter and the second letter but we know about the others because they are referred to in these two but the first letters of the corinthians scholars all agree this is certainly paul writing this letter with an emanuelensis someone who writes the the the words down in in the person of sosthenes who's with him and paul writes the letter to the corinthians there may be one or two interpolations in them but apart from that this is pure paul writing and there are certain chapters which really lift right off into an area entirely their own probably the biggest of those or the most important in people's minds is that great hymn to love in chapter 13 of the letters of the corinthians the first letters of the corinthians the whole of chapter 13 and it's one of those things we tend to know most of it by heart in one translation or another it's so often read at so many occasions where people want to express intimacy part of it read in marriage services quite often the way in which love is totally unselfish and uh it's not that chapter i'm thinking of this morning it's another chapter much much longer 58 verses and it's a chapter which is a hymn to the resurrection i'm talking about chapter 15. i'm not going to read 58 verses i'm just going to read the first 11 verses this is paul writing in probably a.d 53 or 54 and he's writing we believe from ephesus and he's writing to the corinthian church in response to a letter which we don't have which they had written to him asking certain questions but he's also from his own messengers hurtin heard certain facts about how things are going wrong now they've only been founded about three or four years and there are certain things really going wrong and paul is getting very nervous about it but he is wanting now in chapter 15 there's an awful lot of instruction in the other chapters but he's wanting in chapter 15 to express the facts and the belief about the resurrection narrative here we are verse 1 of chapter 15 of the first letters of the corinthians now i would remind you brothers and sisters of the gospel i preached to you which you received in which you stand and by which you are being saved if you hold fast to the word i preached to you unless you believed in vain for i delivered to you as of first importance what i also received that christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures that he was buried that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures and that he appeared to keep us at simon peter then to the twelve then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time most of whom are still alive though some have fallen asleep then he appeared to james it's the brother of jesus then to all the apostles and last of all as to one untimely born he appeared also to me for i am the least of the apostles unworthy to be called an apostle because i persecuted the church of god but by the grace of god i am what i am and his grace towards me was not in vain on the contrary i worked harder than any of them though it was not i but the grace of god that is with me whether then it was i or they so we preach and so you believed it couldn't be plainer and it's written down with so many of those witnesses still living able as eyewitnesses to testify see how like our apostles creed so much of that opening sentences of the the opening sentences of chapter 15 of one corinthians are and how saint paul is saying this was of the first importance that christ died for our sins he was buried on the third day he rose from the dead and then he appeared and then the long list of those to whom he appeared so many of them just not named brothers and sisters that received the the risen christ into their shall we say locked in state and were given release and the gifts of god and the ability to proclaim all of that so that here we have a testimony from saint paul himself who had been persecuting the church and he says it's only by the grace of god and notice the present tense again i am what i am it's a recreation and it comes through forgiveness which is being offered by jesus to the apostles sitting around the table peace be with you and then verifying his own coming with the showing of the wounds and then again peace be with you and then the commission just a few verses in both the gospel of saint john and in the letter of sin paul which was written down much much earlier and all of that is giving the same testimony it's also giving us the same sense of peace and forgiveness and the assurance that jesus himself stands amongst us through the gift of the holy spirit so these days of easter are crucial for our joy in a world where there is so much cause for having no joy and for having fear and being unsettled this is the creator giving us a new creation a new covenant but it comes with a commission and the bright tulips this morning of golden resurrection are reminding us of that commission as all creation sings out a new song well let's remember just two dates today today the 19th of april in 1012 long time ago over a thousand years ago [Music] sint alphage as we normally call him uh the the the saxon name was spelled slightly differently but it's been customary to call him sin alfaj was murdered by the danes the vikings who had captured canterbury in the siege of canterbury and also burned the cathedral and they captured the archbishop and took him off and held him for almost a year in greenwich and they offered to give him back to the people for a ransom and the citizens of canterbury were absolutely willing to pay that ransom but saint alfaj we know was unwilling to let them pay because he said that his poor old bones and he was in old age by then he'd been the the abbot of bath abbey he'd been the bishop of winchester he'd come here as archbishop in 1006 this was uh uh five years later when he was captured and six years later when the the vikings bludgeoned him to death with the great haunches of the ox bones that they were eating at a feast which became altogether uncontrolled and drunken and the archbishop was was slain in in that most unholy circumstance and afterwards there was a degree of horror on the part even of the vikings themselves he was buried to begin with in saint paul's cathedral in london and then his body was brought here to canterbury and place beside the high altar when the cathedral was restored after that there were several times when the cathedral was burned or destroyed again uh but still as you look at the high altar of canterbury cathedral on the left-hand side as you're looking at the altar the north side of the altar there is the stone saying alphage on the other side is a stone saying dunstan but here is alphage the martyr and we well remember in the uh 2012 keeping the millennium of the martyrdom of our sage and uh cardinal koch was here from the vatican worshipping with us and our our dear friend mark langham who had been the administrator the dean of westminster roman catholic cathedral in london and was a friend to us all and sadly since then has died so we pray for the repose of his soul but we remember that celebration with great joy and everything that belonged to it in 2012 10 years ago today so this is the 10th one sorry the millennium plus ten years today a thousand years plus ten and it's thought that thomas beckett treasured not only the memory of alphage as the great christian martyr of canterbury but also a breviary an office book a bit like our daily prayer but used by the benedictine order and and um by priests of saying their offices through the day in a rhythm and that bravery of alphage christopher hamel who was the so many years the librarian at corpus christi college cambridge says that he has recovered and there's great evidence for suggesting that that's so and certainly we know that our becket's last sermon on christmas day here in canterbury referenced the martyrdom of alphage and he had come to vespers a service of the breviary here in the cathedral beckett i mean when he was murdered and you can can have all kinds of conjectures that it was that bravery he was holding when he was slain because as you well know beckett's martyrdom took place in the middle of vespers all of those things adding together but what we find is that the holy spirit having been given invocation to both of them in some way to be consecrated as archbishop of canterbury and that that commission received the holy spirit for the office and work of and then whatever because each of us i don't mean just priests i mean people in their own lives each of us receive different vocations and sometimes the spirit burns really brightly and other times then the spirit is is just a flickering flame but at the same time that gift of the spirit is a gift of the creator and one remembers the holy spirit in the the spirit of god brooding in the old translation i like that because it talks about a hen hatching an egg brooding on the face of the waters and when god says let there be light then the spirit of god brooding on the face of the water involved in all of that as was the the eternal word in creativity who was made flesh in jesus christ and our creed in the western church says the the spirit proceeding from the father as it always had the gift of the father and the son because it's the spirit of jesus too of the graces of humanity that are given to us by the gift of the holy spirit first given in that gentle way when peace was given in the upper room it will be given in a much more dramatic way later uh in a public place when so many are involved and that is toed out on the day of pentecost in the acts of the apostles but here quite quietly jesus gives first the gift of peace and then the commission now the other person i wanted to talk about today who died on the 19th of april 1989 having been born in may 1907 is daphne du maurier she was a novelist and a playwright and also a very private person and became more and more almost reclusive as fame grew but so much of her writing is shall we say a love story about cornwall a place which she knew and absolutely adored and she wanted to give something of the spirit of that county and its communities in history and she did that by her books and she wrote many and many of them are very famous historic novels many of them frenchman's creek and jamaica inn the birds which was a story that uh alfred hitchcock used to make one of his films my cousin rachel all of these many of you will have read but of course the moment you mention daphne du maurier it's one novel that comes to the fore it was a novel she found it difficult to write and the gonanks who were the publishers were saying is it ready is it ready and she was saying no it's not there yet it's not and then suddenly she absented herself from her family and found that her pen was writing or her typewriter was writing and in 1938 the novel rebecca was published didn't start in cornwall it started in a fictitious hotel in monte carlo called hotel cote d'azur and there a young and rather shy woman was the companion to a a rather rather powerful american lady and in the hotel which she certainly wouldn't have been staying at in by her own resources she she met a man called maxim de winter who was himself recovering from the death of his wife but all of that comes through we never ever know the narrator who is the young girl who was with uh with uh mrs van hopper we never know her name uh it's she is the narrator and she marries max of winter you'll remember this uh only too well i'm sure and is always called mrs de winter but it's a title that in some people's minds belongs to max de winter's first wife who clearly was an intensely powerful person and we learn as it goes on of fairly evil intent and all of that is played out against the new mrs winter it's one of those books which has an opening sentence which one never forgets last night i dreamt i went to mandalay again mandarinly the name of the great house in all its beauty and all its grounds opening out onto the sea coast of cornwall and maxim the winter took this uh young girl home thinking it will be a new beginning but there were so many influences from the past at work that the place became friendly in some circumstances because some of the people being very friendly but very very threatening to her and nerve-wracking and of course one remembers the housekeeper in that mrs danvers who was called danny for short especially by the i think the cousin of maxine de winter who he doesn't like very much who's called jack favel and who operates evil through mrs danvers and eggs her on to keep saying in gesture in situations she creates it was never like this in the old mrs winters time and both both sentences at the beginning and the end of the book darcy and mario i think was in a creative mode of almost genius the flame was burning high and the the the last night i dreamt i went to mandalay again opens the book at the end another sentence which sounds very poetic and the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea well you remember what happens how mandalay is destroyed by fire and it's a sense of real new beginnings happening and a new beginning also for maxim de winter and and his unnamed mrs to winter his new bride who then becomes no doubt someone of much more confidence because that which she feared had been set aside why do we know it so well well of course many of us have read the book but also in 1940 alfred hitchcock made one of the classic films of all time and that was simply called rebecca and you will know it starred uh lawrence olivier and joan fontaine as uh maxim de winter and his new bride and it starred dame judith anderson as the uh intensely frightening mrs dander mrs danvers and then characters who were well known to the cinema at that time see aubrey smith as the chief constable of the county colonel julian who is a comforting figure and the staff of the house most of whom are very friendly to the new mrs to winter especially the the agent uh who gives lots of support as does maxine to winter's sister but he has nothing compared with the fear that she herself feels in that house houses tend to have a a certain atmosphere and uh i think that they are created by what has gone on in them not just recently but sort of over the centuries and you almost feel the atmosphere of our house this house here this scenery which has been our home for over 20 years now is a house which adores hospitality the moment you have people there we've got people coming today some people coming to stay tonight and tomorrow and the moment they're here then there is a sense of the house enjoying everything the doors are open or else in wintertime fires are lit and you feel that the house is fetch has always felt this the house is working with him and with the staff in their hospitality given and the gardens when you're creating them so often he will say um i've i've created this part of the garden like this and i did it because i felt that's how it should be and now i've found a photograph of how it was in 1910 or something or uh i'm painting or or or that kind of thing and we've not seen it before and actually it's just as it was then it's as though houses and gardens tend to tell you something and and and sing a song of hospitality with you and they can do the reverse they can also be shut doored and chilly and a sense of of no welcome whatsoever but we have the capacity to do that not only with places and houses but also with people's lives and here is the lord giving peace to his disciples the locked doors don't keep him out he's there with them and at the same time he's giving them much more than that he gives them the gift of the holy spirit having given them their commission as the father sent me so i send you and then receive the holy spirit whoever sins you forgive they are forgiven whoever sins you they retain retained doesn't say where they are retained they're clearly retained in the person there but they're also retained inside you and so that the creative and lovely thing to do is to express that forgiveness by acts of grace and all of that means a new beginning i think if i was asked to say and it's a terribly difficult question which really is your favorite hymn of all which is it i would say it is come down o love divine seek thou this soul of mine and visit it with thine own arda glowing oh comforter drania within my heart appear that is i think the hymn which expresses best that gift of the holy spirit and what the the last line then says is and kindle it kindle my life kindle my my spirituality kindle my thinking kindle my my physicality kindle it by holy flame bestowing and then oh let it freely burn till earthly passions turn to dust and ashes in its heat consuming and let thy glorious light shine ever on my sight and clothe me around the wild my path illuming everything that was being burned away by the blaze of the spirit which not only then fills me with the light of christ but also lights the way ahead clothed me round the while my path is looming and on one goes let holy charity mine outward vestibi and lowliness become my inner clothing true lowliness of heart which takes the humbler part and all its own shortcomings weeps with losing and so the yearning strong which with which the social long shall far outpass the power of human telling for none can guess its grace till they become the place wherein the holy spirit makes his dwelling to me those words express it all you've heard me if when i've been exploring in lectures here or not online um in in uh liken it to the end of elliot's four quartets but i would liken it to so many other things because it's the inner dwelling of that gift of the holy spirit the spirit of the creator the spirit of jesus the spirit of jesus in our physicality our human flesh in our thinking and in the widening out of that gift of the spirit so that these tulips really couldn't be a better image of that this morning because they are glowing with light and the fire which burns up in its imaging those things that need to be turned to dust and ashes so that the living god can live within one and be given as a gift as jesus wanted it to be given so as he says to the disciples he says to us this morning peace be with you as the father sent me so i send you and then receive the holy spirit whoever sins you forgive they're forgiven whoever sins you retain they are retained creative sentences very short just another step along the way but away illumined by the light of the spirits blazing sometimes and sometimes flickering for we perceive sometimes but dimly as sin paul says again in the letters of the corinthians through a glass darkly but then we shall see face to face and then we'll we will know even as we are known 1 corinthians 13 rather than 15. okay let's say our prayers i can go on too long this morning otherwise um and we are this morning let me find my sheet praying for where are we the 19th the diocese of kuwait in the church of nigeria in the abuja province pray for justin our archbishop for uh rose bishop of dover for emma bishop at lambeth and today as we prayed for the clergy with permission to officiate in the offspring dinarianis parishes so today we're praying for all who have a chaplaincy ministry formally and informally within schools uniformed organizations residential care communities community clubs businesses health care groups prisons police armed services and sport in those parishes around osbridge and then we shall start praying for the parishes one by one as we go through the next few days bring your own intentions as we all pray for these stricken people of ukraine at this time here's the easter collect lord of all life and power who through the mighty resurrection of your son overcame the old order of sin and death to make all things new in him grant that we being dead to sin and alive to you in jesus christ may reign with him in glory to whom with you and the holy spirit be praise and honor glory and might now and in all eternity amen so we say each in our own language the prayer our savior taught us our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen time for reflection we had sent to us the most beautiful images of a little nest of hummingbirds hatching thinking of the spirit of god brooding on the face of the waters we don't have hummingbirds here hummingbirds are the other side of the atlantic and these are from california sent by our friend erin who actually gave us some long time ago this lovely warm blanket so thank you aaron not only for the warmth but the warmth of the nest in that picture is actually in a pot plant at home uh on a terrace i imagine but it's a lovely thing to see the tiny tiny hummingbird uh chicks and the the the beauty of the parents and hummingbirds themselves are tiny but their wind wings beat so fast to keep them absolutely static that you hardly see them it's a wonderful thing and it's the hummingbirds are fletcher's favorite birds and it's a tragedy to him that we can't have them here so one has to cross the atlantic to find them but here they are this morning a little nest hatching as we think of the life-giving power of the holy spirit [Music] um [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] us [Music] let's hold each [Music] i [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] well we hope you've enjoyed seeing the hummingbirds i think i did a friend of erin's a disservice because i think she she said erin said when she uh sent it that it was at the house of a friend that that that shot was taken though she herself has nests of hummingbirds in her own her own garden uh so um first the the the blessing for today the god of peace who brought again from the dead our lord jesus that great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight and the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and those whom you would pray for this easter tide and always amen well let's have a look and see uh the answer to the riddle before we we end this morning um i think that uh i uh asked yesterday the more holes that you cover the lower i will go what am i and the answer is the musical instrument the recorder the more holes you cover the note gets lower and lower and then uh four you use me from your head to your toes the more i do the less of me remains what am i and the answer is a bar of soap uh i'm giving you this one now um i will always run but never walk often murmur but never talk i have a bed but never sleep and have a mouth but never eat what am i and then i go through a door but never go in and never come out what am i i say to you these are medium difficult now and so i think we're having more trouble with them and so we shall we shall puzzle them as you will until i won't look at the answer i don't know the answer to either of those and then lastly our book of lost words and uh yesterday we were with the starlings in their great flocks and today we are don't know myself yet until we turn the page oh with a weasel now that a weasel normally is not thought to be a very nice creature and it's just saying they're beautiful but they are are very very uh they've got a bad press should we say and uh if someone is saying weasel words it means that they are not actually telling the truth well here's the acrostic down the side weasel whirls through world like wildfire embers spin smoke curls for weasel acts on land like spark on tinder scorches grass turns field to pyre sand to glass tree to cinder eats air burns shadow lights the sky hot wires the sun with its speed its dance it guys well i should say gyres i think because that's gyrations isn't it uh too many words here um and here is a weasel uh let's turn over because it's probably bigger here yeah there we are a weasel here and uh one down here too so there must be a little nest of weasels and i'm sure the young look absolutely lovely but they're as fast as lightning and they're as vicious as he could possibly um be and so you certainly wouldn't want to encounter a weasel guarding its young but we give thanks and here on this side there's a little wren and uh so we have those in the garden and they sing much much more loudly than we can all right so enjoy your day this tuesday of easter week and please don't forget that easter lasts as long as len did and uh it's not just easter day and when the chocolate eggs are over the easter message of resurrection goes right through to the day of pentecost when the holy spirit is given to so so many people with power as a sign of what is going to come in the life of christ's church well mr tiger you're having a wash without a bar of soap but your rough tongue does the work by your eyes it's a very nice day to be sitting outside all right no robins this morning in this part of the garden and no leo i left him having his breakfast in the kitchen so you've not been troubled by him wanting to steal the limelight you