interlocking bricks for cathedral driveway

the surface of the driveway and parking area for the cathedral is covered in broken bricks and gravel and just plain red earth,  there has been noises made for a few months now about resurfacing the drive. Some monies have been gathered and work has started.

                                                                                         this is the state now


There is no where to buy the required bricks so the bricks are made with a machine, 6 at a time, there was a small area with a roof constructed that the machine sits under with 2 men mixing and then filling the molds with cement, they are prepared on a 18 x 18 inch board so they can be lifted and set out in the sun until dry (takes 2-3 hours), I will keep you posted

 

drinks/eats at the local hotel

Sunday afternoon

Thanks be to God for peanut butter

no hydro. peanut butter (ground nuts) sandwich.

yesterday

I dropped in on Kingsley and Pomaa was visiting him on her way home from school, so she decided to try to figure out who or what I was. she stood very quietly beside my leg and touched my arm.
I asked if she want to 
sit on my lap so here she is looking a little stunned but never the less, touching this weird woman with white skin|

Advent candle holder

last Advent the Advent candles sat on a 1 x 1 foot box beside the altar and they disappeared after xmas eve, I gather the whole story about the Advent candles is not known here, I have to tell you the box looked tacky to say the least, after a conversation  with the Dean about Advent wreaths and candles he thought it might be nice to have a real Advent wreath candle holder so after looking at a few designs he picked one and I called Moses, the great carpenter and showed him the design the Dean liked and left him to his devices, I do not have the nerve to make suggestions as he always comes up with a great finished product, so here is the result, I think it is great!!!! just needs to white candle for the centre

new skill - CORKING

remember corking... those of my vintage will remember, mine was usually from an empty thread spool (they used to be made of wood) and my father would put 4 penny nails on one end and then with wool and a crochet hook I was off to the races. Philamina wants to make round rope belt (called girdle for priests) could crochet it but corking seem easier so I had carpenter Moses make a few gismoes (don' know name or spelling) and today a few students started. They were very successful so now just need to get a black cord, wool, thread what ever is around to see if the girdles can be produced as she wants to sell them in the Centre's shop  here at the cathedral.I am really glad I have been into crafts all through the years as has come in handy here in solving craft situations.

issue of a hat

there was a seminarian robed for the wedding on Saturday, a friend of the bride,  white cassock, surplice, and she had a hat on, after asking a few people about the hat, I was told that some diocese require that their women clergy wear a hat when robed (good job I am not in that diocese) anyway she came to church on Sunday so I got an opportunity to ask her about the hat. She said some diocese expect the hat to be worn, so I launched into the inequality between men and women about who wears a hat. She did say that her bishop the Rt. Rev. Dr Victor Atta Baffoe (a grad of Trinity in Toronto that same convocation when I graduated and  former Dean of St. Nicholas Seminary in Cape Coast) so the bishop has been discussing her not wearing the hat but parishioners sometimes want the woman's head covered, I had 5 minutes to talk about the visible difference that the hat presents by separating the genders of priests and how do women ever be seen the same if we look different, So when men wear hats then we all can wear them, until then, not in my book.

so hence the picture with no hat.Vida Frimpong and I ... with hat in my hand