Rev Stephen Gamble
Lament for a Silent Spring, by Stephen Gamble
'Silent Spring' is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson, published in 1962. The book details the devastating effects of...
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REV STEPHEN GAMBLE
Music, sermons, notes & videos of my dogs.
Having originally started with posting sermons on this Blog I branched out to include videos of my dogs, articles I have written, and some of my music.
The things I write are as full of inelegance and error as any other quality I may rather they posses, but they may possibly be useful or even entertaining to you - maybe if only to take issue with what I have said.
Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
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Rev Stephen Gamble
Bracken Daydreams and Recollections.
The smell of warm bracken reminds me of my childhood, especially holidays in Wales. My parents would drive to some beauty spot, get out...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Narrow Gate.
Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Wild Roses.
I prefer wild roses to cultivated varieties, as both a botanical and a general principle.
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Finding of a Fossil.
Can God Count? Or The Finding of a Fossil. According to the bible the world is 4000 years old, but thanks to science we know that the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Sonata Concitato, Temperato e Molle, by Stephen Gamble
.Sonata Concitato, Temperato e Molle (Solo Violin Sonata No 4) Back in 2004 I read about Monteverdi’s (1565 – 1643) theory that music...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Falling of Evening Shadows.
Landscape has a generous capacity for standing as a metaphor for human experience. Especially the play of light and dark. At present...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Book Launch.
When publishing a book I believe it is customary to have a ‘book launch’, this usually involves a party, drinks and nibbles, invited...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Daydream No 3 (Beside the Beck), by Stephen Gamble
A beck is a stream, the word is commonly used across northern England and is of Norse origin. I find out of the way becks are a good...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Two Little Sketches for Solo Violin: Lowna Mill and and the Dove in Spate, by Stephen Gamble
Lowna Mill is in Farndale, by the river Dove. A gently beautiful place lined with wild daffodils in the spring, but I have seen the Dove...
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Easter Reflection (although I was tempted to call it Easter Ramblings)
Once More it is Eventide. "At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one,...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Skipster Hagg Jigg, by Stephen Gamble.
Preudio - Allegro - Postlude Hagg - A wooded enclosure (of Scandinavian origin: hogg - to hew) Written in 2016 From 'Music for Solo...
Rev Stephen Gamble
"April is the cruelest month" TS Eliot
I think the beginning of Spring is hard, the clocks have changed, April has come round, it's a bit warmer but still chilly at times, and...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Sonata No 7 for Solo Violin, “The Relics of Nicholas Postgate”
In the summer of 2011 I visited St Hedda’s Church at Egton Bridge and was very moved by the relics and story of Nicholas Postgate, a...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Music for Solo Violin Vol 1 North Yorkshire
I have revised my book of violin music, now it has a ring binder spine so is easier to use, and I have improved the presentation from...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Sunday the 17th of March 2019 to Tuesday the 17th of March 2020.
Sunday the 17th of March 2019 was the last time I took a church service, which as I begin to write this is a year ago today. Having...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Through Lent to Easter
Though in a bare and rugged way through devious lonely wilds I stray, thy bounty shall my pains beguile; the barren wilderness shall...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Quaker Trod.
A ‘Quaker Trod’, or alternately a ‘Quaker Causeway’, is a pathway made of stone slabs laid across the moorland of North Yorkshire. There...
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Overture in the Manner of a Kleist Short Story. By Stephen Gamble
Alternately known as the 'Resignation' Overture'.
Rev Stephen Gamble
Deo Volente
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.”...
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