News & Musings

Visakha Puja, commemorating the Birth, Enlightenment and Passing of the Buddha, will be celebrated at The Forest Hermitage on Sunday, May 18th from 10 o’clock in the morning.

Rosemary Alcock, a really wonderful friend and supporter and well known to just about everyone who has had anything to do with The Forest Hermitage over the last eighteen years, passed away on Thursday afternoon, April 17th, at a quarter to five. Her body was cremated on May 2nd.

News & Musings Blog. Updated on April 22nd - Driver needed.

Every Monday and Friday at eight o’clock in the evening we have a meditation session and usually a talk. There’s no charge and there’s no need to book, you’re simply invited to join us for the evening.

Debt down again and again. After the Tort Pah Bah on Sunday, April 6th, that was organised by Khun Dang to celebrate her 60th birthday, we were able to knock £6,000 off our debt to the bank. That means it came down to £73,000. But then after last weekend when a total of more than £1,500 was offered at two Songkran celebrations, one at Yod Siam Thai Restaurant in Nottingham on Saturday and another at The Forest Hermitage on Sunday, we have brought the debt down now to £72,000.

TBSUK. One of the advantages of using this WordPress set up is that I can add pages dedicated to particular things that interest me. One of my newest pages is devoted to the Theravada Buddhist Sangha in the UK (TBSUK). Please take a look, last tab on the right.

BCAF-EA. I have also created a page for the BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY TO THE ARMED FORCES: ENDORSING AUTHORITY of which I am now the Chairman, for the purpose of placing on the Web a statement that we have just issued. Please take a look under the BCAF-EA tab, the tab before Breaking News.

The Picture. If you’re wondering where the photo at the top of the page was taken, it was in January this year at Wat Keuan in the extreme corner of North East Thailand. The keuan or dam, Sillingtorn Dam named after the King’s daughter, is somewhere in the background to the right of the little island on which I am standing. I spent my second year as a monk there and loved it.