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    Room with a view

    Whilst at a friends house yesterday, Karl took this photograph of the church from their dining room window. What a view, with Powis Castle behind. Image of the Week #32

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    ‘Your Christ Church’

    We love to see your photographs of Christ Church, and this week we have been lucky enough to have several pictures of the church sent to us by Ian Francis and Colin Rogers. We now have a new Pinterest board ‘Your Christ Church’ to showcase these wonderful photos. If you would like to share your pictures of the church, please…

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    Exploring Powis Castle

    We had an afternoon off from restoration work this weekend, to go and have an explore around neighbouring Powis Castle. It was a lovely family day out. More pics over at Slate Grey, Lime and Hay

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    Daffodils

    Apologies for having two flower Image of the Week’s back to back, but the daffodils are looking quite splendid in the churchyard, that they really do deserve a mention. Most of the daffodils here have planted on graves many years ago. I particularly like the ones that pop up on an unmarked grave. They beautifully represent a precious memory. Image…

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    Searching for Spring

    It is very wet and blustery today and Spring still feels a long time in coming. We seem to be craving signs of spring at the moment, in the absence of warmer temperatures and sunshine. The churchyard is full of the song of the newly arrived Chiffchaffs which is very uplifting. Swallows were flying over Dairy Pool near Powis Castle…

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    Launching ‘Converts’

    Owning a church is quite a unique experience, especially when converting part of it into a home for our family. We have had a huge variety of issues to consider and ‘challenges’ to overcome pertinent to the fact that it’s a church, and in the process we have learnt so much. We have had to draw on our own resources…

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    Easter window

    Angels with Mary Magdalene at the Empty Tomb. A O Hemming, 1892. An Easter themed Image of the Week. This is a close up of a stained glass window in the North aisle. Wishing you all a good long Easter weekend. Ours consists of spending time with family, a couple of bracing walks, an egg hunt in the garden, followed…

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    Lots and lots of plastering

        Last week the House build took a big leap forward as a huge amount of plastering was undertaken by local plasterers, Paul Nicoll and Chad Davies. They have done a fantastic job plastering the partition wall and ceiling, which will be part of our living room and the block wall between the two pillars, as well as the…