good morning and welcome to canterbury cathedral to the deanery garden here on this thursday the 21st of april it's the thursday in easter week but let me say first and foremost it is the 96th birthday of her majesty queen elizabeth ii and we all wish her majesty a very very happy birthday she's spending this day in sandringham and we can reflect a little bit about what this day means in our reflection later but we wanted to begin this with a really happy birthday to her majesty the queen we've been watching on so many of the news programs this morning singers and actors and actresses coming together to sing a thank you song for all those years of service of our queen and also of faithful discipleship as well so let's as a garden congregation give thanks for both that discipleship and the emblem of service which she gives at the same time we continue to pray urgently for the people of ukraine through these days of easter week which must feel so much more like passion tied for them and as we've said so often these liturgical days are put across the year in different day in different seasons different times simply to remind us of the complexity of the wonderful gifts that the creator offers to us but they are given in good times and in bad in times of sorrow in times of violence and to give all kinds of quality to our lives and also the capacity to realize the gifts of the kingdom of heaven both in passion tide and in easter week and sometimes easter comes in full joy at dark times of the year and passion tide comes in full sorrow to people's lives in these other seasons of spring and new growth so there is a mismatch in the complexity of all that we as humankind experience together and uh prayer must undergird all of that and the gifts and graces of the kingdom of heaven be part of our daily lives for each other so let's say our prayers on this morning bring your own prayers from across the world and some of you are in the southern hemisphere where is autumn some in the northern hemisphere where the spring is awakening and certainly the spring is awakening in the garden this morning the sun has yet to reach the point where i'm sitting but i'm looking across it sun lit lawns where it's already risen above the wall and flowers are springing but we have yellow flowers on the table to remind us that this is the week of easter and the celebration is of resurrection oh lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise in your resurrection o christ let heaven and earth rejoice alleluia [Music] 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 are men we're sitting in a corner of the garden wall and uh in older pictures this was a small conservatory where people would come and sit but what you see is the pattern of different stones that make up the garden walls much of them flintstones from this part of the country but also bits of stone which have clearly been taken from the cathedral itself when restoration's taking place now that stone the kong stone is from normandy and it's still used here on the cathedral when we are restoring as we are at the moment but here these bits of stone must have been put in many many years ago and the corn stone you see has that uh lovely pale color but when it's submitted to fire at high level pleasure was reminding me of this this morning it turns pink and one sees two large stones here which are of a pink color they're cold stone but clearly at some stage in their history they were part of the cathedral when it was blazing and there have been several times in history way back one just after beckett was martyred the fire took place in 1174 but before that it took place with the earlier cathedrals with with the the vikings coming and burning the cathedral we saw that when we were remembering alphage a day or two ago and how the the vikings burned the cathedral and those stones have come through fire and now that pink color still reminds us that they were part of this place's history when it was being devastated violently by fire so let's say our psalm this morning and the psalm is 105 and it's a very long one so i'm only going to read two sections of it one from the beginning and one at the end it's talking about the way the lord saved his people from their years in egypt and brought them to a promised land oh give thanks to the lord and call upon his name make known his deeds among the peoples sing to him sing praises and tell of all his marvelous works rejoice in the praise of his holy name let the hearts of them rejoice who seek the lord seek the lord and his strength seek his face continually remember the marvels he has done he brought his people out of egypt he brought them out with silver and gold there was not one among their tribes that stumbled egypt was glad at their departing for a dread of them had fallen upon them he spread out a cloud for a covering and a fire to light up the night they asked and he brought them quails he satisfied them with the bread of heaven he opened the rock and the waters gushed out and ran in the dry places like a river for he remembered his holy word and abraham his servant so he brought forth his people with joy his chosen ones with singing he gave them the lands of the nations and they took possession of the fruit of their toil that they might keep his statutes and faithfully observe his laws hallelujah so we're going to turn now to our reading from the new testament and i said that this week we will be looking at the key points of the story of the resurrection as it was handed on to the early church in the years following the crucifixion and resurrection of our lord that first day of pentecost and then the church's life beginning across the mediterranean world particularly to begin with the eastern mediterranean world so i'm not reading from st john this morning we'll go back to st john tomorrow and on saturday i'm going back to the earliest of the gospel accounts of the resurrection and that's from the earliest of the gospels and there's general acceptance that that earliest account is in mark chapter 16 just the first eight verses now we read and i'll refer to it again we read earlier this week the account given by saint paul of how the story of resurrection was handed on to him and her risen life became part of his own belief and faith and that was written in the 15th chapter the beginning of the 15th chapter of his first letter to the corinthians which as we said then was written round about the year 53 54 a.d probably from ephesus and written in response to a letter sent to him by his infant corinthian church it had only been founded a few years and then paul wrote back and gave the simplicity of the account as he had received it so that is earlier certainly than the account as we have it written in st mark's gospel which we believe was written in rome and that peter had quite an influence on mark's writing at that time i'm going to read that earliest account now verses 1 to 8 of chapter 16 and then give some more clues as to how this puzzle which we shan't solve but we shall perhaps get some more jigsaw pieces in the pattern that we build up how that was given to the early church so here's st mark chapter 16. verses 1 to 8. when the sabbath was passed mary magdalene mary the mother of james and salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint the body of jesus and very early on the first day of the week when the sun had risen they went to the tomb and they were saying to one another who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb and looking up they saw that the stone had been rolled back it was very large and entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the right side dressed in a white robe and they were alarmed and the young man said to them do not be alarmed you seek jesus of nazareth who was crucified he has risen he is not here see the place where they laid him but go tell his disciples and peter that he is going before you to galilee there you will see him just as he told you and they went and fled from the tomb for trembling and astonishment had seized them and they said nothing to anyone for they were afraid there the gospel of saint mark ended and so many solutions to why it ended there have been put forward but the generally accepted solution now is that that's where it finished and yet the early church was not satisfied with this and so in our bibles and there are notes in most of the bibles to say that verses 9 to 20 of the gospel of saint mark are written by a completely different hand and the style of the writing and what is said there is quite different but what is said in those two different types of accounts which are given to us after verse eight is a compendium of what the church received afterwards but let's go back to those first eight verses because i'm fascinated by them and i'm fascinated by them first and foremost by the fact that when jesus and his disciples left the upper room where they had been having their last supper jesus calls them first to sing a hymn i'm now in chapter 14 of st mark you can look this up later verse 26 when they had sung at hymn they went out to the mount of olives and and the inferences as they walked along jesus said to them you will all fall away for it is written i will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered but after i am raised up i will go before you to galilee there's that sentence and a bit later on verse 51 of chapter 14 there's a puzzling couple of verses the betrayal has happened the arrest has happened and all the disciples have forsaken jesus and fled from the garden we know that from the account we've been reading in john's gospel the beloved disciple and peter followed fearfully at a distance and entered into the courtyard of the high priest but for the moment all the disciples have fled and they have taken jesus but not got anyone else and then there's this verse 51 and a young man followed him with nothing but a linen cloth about his body and they seized him but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked someone else was there and had overheard that conversation as they walked along a young man followed him with nothing but a linen cloth about his body and they seized him but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked the question is of course who is that young man and then and there's no certainty in any of this except the way this is put together and then is that the same young man who is there early in the morning in a white robe who has come out very very early from his bed to come and see whether this was the third day and remember that jesus says uh to the them as they all walk along um after i am raised up i will go before you to galilee and here the young man on the third day is here waiting and he himself has come now in all probability he may have found that the stone had been rolled away already it was very heavy said the women to one another who will roll away the stone for us it had been rolled away the inference is perhaps that the young man had rolled it away but what he says to them is absolutely the the same sentence that jesus said to his disciples on the way with the young man following on that night when they left the last supper table don't be alarmed you seek jesus of nazareth who was crucified he has risen he is not here see the place where they laid him but go tell his disciples and peter that he is going before you to galilee when i am raised from that i will go before you to galilee says jesus since mark's gospel and the young man following uh hears that and here he is saying it if this simple solution has any truth in it it's the same gospel it's the earliest gospel but then if one goes to the acts of the apostles the puzzle has more things attached to it because we learn when peter escapes from prison in the acts of the apostles with the agency of the angel coming to unlock the doors of his jail and we are then looking at the point i think in acts chapter 12 when he escapes and finds himself walking down the road and he's out of the prison he goes to where all the disciples are finding shelter locked in from the persecution which hasn't only imprisoned peter but has killed james the brother of john not james the lord's brother but james the brother of john the son of zebedee and he's gone to find them to tell them that he is released where does he go he went to the house of mary the mother of john whose other name was mark where many were gathered together and were praying and he knocked on the door well there's that story but the interesting thing is that this room where they all are locked in belongs to the mother of mark john mark as his full name is later on john mark is taken by paul and barnabas on their first missionary journey just a young man and his courage fails him and he leaves them paul and barnabas and goes back home at that time and you will then remember then when paul and barnabas set out for their second missionary journey barnabas wants to take mark again with him to give him a second chance and paul will not have it and so the argument between them becomes so sharp all this is in acts chapter 14 the argument is so sharp that paul takes silas instead and barnabas goes with john mark off to a cyprus and they suddenly barnabas then sails out of the story of the new testament he is giving the um young john mark a second chance let's find that here we are it's it's chapter 15 verse 36 after some days paul said to barnabas let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaim the word of the lord and see how they are now barnabas wanted to take with them john called mark but paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in panphilia and had not gone with them to the work and there arose a sharp disagreement so that paul and barnabas separated from each other barnabas took mark he's just marked now with him and sailed away to cyprus but paul chose silas and departed having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the lord and he went through syria and cilicia strengthening the churches they separate and john mark or mark goes with barnabas but mark clearly in the end and you can find his name in many of the epistles um then mark clearly ends in rome and the long-standing tradition of the church is that peter had mark as his emanuensis writing these early accounts so what we're getting here is a sense of the simplicity of the story that mark tells but also that he sees it only as a beginning of the story of the early church he goes before you to galilee there you will find him the message of the young man to the women as they fled from the tomb that morning we'll come back to that in another gospel tomorrow but as one goes together with this kind of solution um we're only positing different solutions because the total solution will always be unknown to us we're left with four gospels i've got my cathedral keys here and uh two of them are master keys which unlock the cathedral doors and other doors and then another is a a key that unlocks a gate and some are small keys which put lights on in the cathedral this whole bunch of keys is needed to get the cathedral open and lit at night and we are talking about the same kind of complexity with the way that the four narratives of the gospel and also what paul says in one corinthians about the resurrection and if we turn to that again and remember that paul spent time with john mark so uh and paul wasn't an eyewitness and mark was so when you come to the first epistle to the corinthians and you think well how did paul know all this and who gave him the eyewitness accounts well it could have been many but remember how he says in chapter 15 of the first letters of the corinthians just 20 years after the crucifixion 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 peter then to the twelve then he appeared to more than 500 brothers and sisters at one time most of whom are still alive though some have fallen asleep then he appeared to james that's the lord's brother into all the apostles last of all as to one untimely born he appeared also to me where did the eyewitness account come from well john mark was with paul and barnabas quite some time but she was the nephew of barnabas so all these eyewitness accounts become significant as the church hands that on but peter himself of course had been an eyewitness to much of it but the puzzle has to be pieced together and it's not just one key nor is it being told in one dimension we're now back with the two dimensions that st john's gospel speaks in all the way through that which is of the earth mercy that which is of the heavens eternal and the way in which humanity is composed humankind composed of the physical body the mind to puzzle things out and the spirit to receive gifts which are much more significant than the factual gifts and yet at the same time they they almost tease us beckon us forward step by step so that one key unlocks something but it's not quite enough and another key unlocks a different set of doors and then a different gate and then another key these two little keys which light the whole cathedral then these little keys give a light which even the master key can't give this is no good in that particular lock so as we study together in mind and spirit we give thanks for the way in which this has been handed on to us by eyewitnesses and those who have embraced that gift later like luke who came late not as an eyewitness but gathered evidence everywhere and told his story in that particular way these stones behind me are evidence of the story of the cathedral and uh the two of them that are burned pink telling at some stage but not exactly when that they were in a fire in the cathedral of great heat and have been used again in this wall but they are testaments to the long history of this place so let's look at what's happening today well as i said this is a really happy day for the whole commonwealth of nations and also many congratulations from all parts of the world for our queen on her 96th birthday we're thinking of her at sandringham and it's thought that she was taken from from windsor to sandringham by helicopter but it's thought that she will be spending the time in wood farm which was the homely uh place not sandringham house at the bigger palace but a homely place where prince philip loved to stay and we remember her on this day and remember also her loss of prince philip a year ago now so this is a birthday where the family members of her family will surround her but she'll be there in in a quiet celebration with her her family and there's time later because the queen has an official birthday uh uh in in in june uh usually and so that official birthday is always a great sense of of formality and celebration and bands and color and uh trooping the color takes place i remember being taken to it by my parents uh back in i don't know the mid 50s and seeing that yeah seeing the the queen on her horse ride pass i think the horse was called winston in those days uh and um in those days also a policeman picked me up and put him put me on his shoulders that i was looking over there that wouldn't happen today in any way at all nor would the police be looking at the procession they would actually be looking into the crowd because of security arrangements but it was an an easier time in those mid 1950s uh and i remember having cornish pasties that my mother baked uh in the park afterwards so a a really happy memory for me on the official birthday of the queen but this is a quiet birthday when she will be allowed to celebrate in that way now let's just think back briefly so much could be said on this day but let's sing back to her birthday on the 21st of april 1926 was she born in a grand palace no she was not for in those days when she was born her father was not the heir to the throne he was a a younger son the and his his older brother uh edward who had chosen to be called um edward when he became king but uh he was always called david by the royal family so his older brother david was the heir to the throne and a very popular figure in the nation and clearly was going to be a fine king so that meant that when the queen was born and she was born in 17 brewton street mayfair a house on a busy road in the middle of london a house that belonged to her grandparents the queen mother as we knew has um parents the ireland countess of strathmore and they had moved the one who was to become king george vi and uh the one who was to become the queen mother had moved into that house only weeks before the queen's birth sadly that house is now no longer and for a long time it was it was thought that it had been destroyed in the blitz it was destroyed in fact by something much more devastating than the blitz i mean eager property developers who took down five or six of those beautiful houses in britain street in order to build what has become a great hotel and the site of that house is now the side entrance to the hotel there so that humankind for reasons of profit and development can sometimes do more damage than high explosives so this house was actually demolished and had been done before the war and and one sees in in all sorts of of cities of great beauty that if not protected then that can happen i see it all round at any time as we all do um but for the moment let's give thanks that for 10 years her majesty was completely unaware that this role was awaiting her for her uncle um david at that time in 1936 at the death of her own grandfather king george v whom she would remember because she she was 10 years old when he died then her uncle became king edward viii and at that time she couldn't have conceived that this was going to be how it would be but we know that in december of 1936 king george the vi became king george vi and suddenly the princess elizabeth was the heir to the throne but i'm sure she thanks god for those 10 relaxed years with her mother and father and all that they taught her and they were beloved of her until her father died in 1952 and then the queen mother who died in 2002 and so we remember that time of not feeling that this was the preparation for the role that she has fulfilled with such a sense of public service all these years since her father died on february 6 1952 and she suddenly became queen we've looked at that on february 6 and the the story i'm tell i'm sure will be told on many television channels today because this is a day when we are giving thanks for the queen but also we give thanks for the fact that this can be a fairly private day for her and also a day spent with the family let's think of someone else who on the 8th of may will also be 96 and he and the queen have been recorded in conversations i'm talking about sir david attenborough and he has just been announced as a united nations champion of the earth which is a high honor to someone who cares so much about the environment so we congratulate sir david attenborough on this day and on the 8th of may um we'll be able to think of of his birthday as 96 he was here not too long ago uh enjoying these precincts and very strong as well and came into a funeral service that i was taking of one of his family and and uh it was wonderful to see him in such such a good spirits and good heart on on that day so congratulations justin david attenborough as we say happy birthday to our queen at the same time and there are one or two more dates if this wasn't easter week we would be celebrating in great state the feast of sin anselm of beck or saint anselm of canterbury you can call him what you will and our uh connection with the abbeys at beck is very strong on thursdays we always pray for the two communities there the the the brothers and the sisters of the two communities there in the the benedictine monasteries hit back and anselm was the abbot of beck when he was chosen to be archbishop of canterbury and he was chosen in the year 1093 but spent some of his time seems to be a habit of archbishops of canterbury um in that period to quarrel with the king and uh we know that that uh um the the uh life of becket was plagued by having to be in exile well beckett was much later than anselm but anselm himself who was a great scholar and also uh had been born in aosta on the via franciscana and the all-term we've we've seen all these things in our our uh festival stories as we've gone through but the altar in saint anselm's chapel was placed there in my time early on as a gift of the citizens of our oster the the son of um their own community who became not only abba beck but of the the archbishop of canterbury and he was that from 1093 to 1109 when he died on the 21st of april 1109 that's why i'm mentioning him today and when he came here as i say he resisted certain things that william ii who was a a very unsuccessful monarch but nevertheless quarreled with ann salman from 1097 to 1100 anselm was in exile and doing great things in europe having quarreled with the authorities here and then he came back in 1100 and then in 1105 the next king henry the first exiled him again for two years or he fled to exile and anselm then returned in 1107 to become archbishop again until 1109. well we think of that and the way in which church and state have always sparked as to who was the most powerful and what what belonged to the church and what belonged to the state and one remembers jesus's own statements render unto caesar the things which are caesar's and unto god the things which are god's which rings down through history well we give thanks for saint anselm and his chapel is on the south side of the cathedral so it shows sunlight through more modern stained glass because the same glass in that chapel was destroyed in the war when the uh high explosives were happening during the badaka raid but it's a lovely chapel to worship in on a sunny day i wanted to say also and this is uh really um another aspect of this day that on the 21st of april 1964 bbc two the television channel bbc two started its broadcasting it had been planned for the day before and there were all kinds of plan plans for the evening of bbc2 which was going to be a culturally relevant programming so that the the programs would be more serious and they would talk about serious things and show serious programs and and also um concentrate on on good literature and one remembers that in 1967 the whole of the foresight saga was set out in many episodes to the the delight of the nation on bbc two and it began to broadcast in color at that time the first television channel to do so but uh in on the 20th of april 1964 it was all set to go and there was a colossal power failure at the battersea power station so none of those programs could be broadcast and it started broadcasting the next day and it started with the first thing that had been planned on that next day which was in the middle of the morning at 11 o'clock which was called play school and base school lasted right through till uh 1988 but play school really well known to us all and it would start with a rhythmic beginning so that the children would be used to this now on bbc one it's time for play school introduced by don spencer and chloe ashcroft a house with a door one two three four [Music] to play what's the day it's thursday here's a house here's a door windows one two three four ready to knock turn the lock it's play school and then everyone would be treated with actually live announcers before that any kind of children's program like watch with mother had had a commentator's voice but you didn't see them here you got to know the people that were there and characters that they introduced to you but the windows one two three four one square one round one arch one triangular would allow the children to look at different things not only have songs and and play time with the the announcers and not the announcers really the ones who are presenting the program but at the same time they would go into different aspects of the world and look at things of interest sometimes of natural interest and sometimes of interest of what people actually did in creative work and it depended which window you went through what you were going to watch so it became really a mother and father of all of those types of programs which then were released from both bbc one bbc two and now so many bbc channels but let's give thanks for the beginning of that bbc two on this morning april the 21st 1964 that all began so hi tiger you're back you went for a little walk um let's say our prayers then on this day and first of course we pray for the pelson welfare with thanksgiving of her majesty the queen and we also pray in the anglican communion for the diocese of kiyushu in the episcopal church not the episcopal church the anglican church of japan and that is the nippon seiko kai we prayed for another diocese of kyoto yesterday from that same church and also here in the diocese as we pray for justin our archbishop and uh for rose bishop of dover and for emma bishop at lambeth we pray for the parish a borton under bleen a very beautiful parish nearby is not far away from here at all it's vacant at the moment in terms of parish priests so we pray for those in taking care of the ministry there at present and we pray for the borton under bleen and dunkak school and the handheld church of england primary school there they're all within that parish and no doubt will be starting their term soon again our own king school here is back again now and so the term has begun the summer term has begun let's then say first the prayer for easter and then bring your own prayers and intentions to that and at the same time we will then say the prayer that our savior taught us in the various languages getting the wrong page there we are 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 in the holy spirit be praise and honor glory and might now and in all eternity amen so together the prayer our savior taught us in many languages 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 are men so we have some music now for you uh and um we were thinking that this piece of music really captured the sense of certain themes all coming together for it's a piece by bach and it's showing not only the dexterity of the human body to think in different ways and and be creative physically as well and and open up the spirit but the way in which bach whenever he was telling a story from the gospels in his passions would let the story be told by one human voice in what we call recitative and then it will be taken up by another human voice reflecting on the story in beautiful areas not with words of scripture but with with meditations in in words and then finally a chorus and a chorale and the chorale will be in great simplicity and four-part harmony and that coming together almost like the bunch of keys is a way in which music is able to set out different dimensions of our humanity and our ability to be physically creative to be mentally active and puzzling through problems and situations and to be spiritually receptive to things which enlarges beyond all imaginings to a different dimension as the gifts of heaven are given in eternity this [Music] so [Music] 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 now and always are men the music that you um heard uh was played by our friend ben priest who has both conducted and played here in the cathedral many times and conducted choirs in the holiday of our own choir and it's interesting to see how ben's feet are playing one two one of his hands playing one and the other hand playing and showing the dexterity and versatility of our human kind in doing things of different sorts as we said barkstage in setting out the story of our new testament so let's do a little bit of puzzling of ourselves and look at the riddle and see where we are uh we're in let's see what i asked yesterday sorry tiger it's a leaf that's come astray in the wind don't be scared um i am pronounced as one letter written with three i come in blue black brown or gray reverse me and i read the same either way did you get that it's the i e y e i'm pronounced as one letter i written with three e y e i come in blue black brown or gray reverse me and i read the same either way e-y-e what am i i and then eight is my clothes come off when you put on your clothes however i get them back when you take your clothes off what am i and it's a clothes hanger or a clothes horse so that's the answer to that uh so um then uh the next two i do lots of work but only when there is something in my eye what am i and another i fly away as soon as you set me loose people around you may slowly move away once they sense my presence what am i so let's do those tomorrow and then the last the last of the lost words today here's the book this comes to the end of the book i have to find another i think uh and what we've got today is the wren little bird w-r-e-n we have them in the garden here and it always surprises me that the song that they sing is so large compared with their size because they are tiny and uh yet they sing a beautiful song and this is the acrostic it's quite short because they're just four letters when ren wears from stone to furs the world around her slows for ren is quick so quick she blurs the air through which she flows yes rapid ren is needle rapid ren is pin and ren's song is sharp song briar song thorne song and ren's flight is dart flight flick flight light flight yes each wren etches stitches switches glitches yes now you think you see ren now you know you don't they can skip away and here's a wren here flying above a ghost bush but let me turn the page because i'm sure we'll get one last big scene from this book here we are lots of little wrens in a bad tree and one at the top here singing her heart out we find that in the garden quite often tiny birds and beautiful beds and their tails tend to stick right up which is wonderful [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so we thank robert mcfarlane and jackie morris for this book and the intention had always been and here are goldfinches on the front the intention had always been by robert mcfarlane to introduce words natural words of birds names plants names that had vanished from especially children's vocabularies but even adult vocabularies because they're no longer seen and are in no longer in use so thank you robert and jackie for this let's put that down and we're going to go and begin our day and we hope you will have a lovely day on this day of easter week all right sir i think you sort of want to stay here a bit don't you the sun will come round onto this table at some stage quite soon now but there's work to do i'm afraid and all right [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] so you