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Religious orders: Monks from Sancta Maria Abbey in Nunraw cast their votes at a polling station in Garvald, East Lothian while nuns vote at St John's Hyde Park, Central London

 

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Nunraw - White Castle Iron Age Hill Fort

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Lammermuir Views Google reveals the delightful motorcycling in the county, '

keeping the dream alive', of the miles from Garvald to Whiteadder.

For many years we have brought guests from Nunraw Abbey to visit the hill-fort, White Castle, and going on to the smithy caravan camp and tea room. The children enjoyed at the stream of the reservoir compensation to river, and played skipping pebbles on calm water.

The pictures from the Coastkid Blogspot (friday, 27 november 2009) illustrate the gazetteer of the trip. In fact it will be be great ranging over the Lammermuir View. 

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We appreciate the 'keeping the dream alive. Thank you!

Lammermuir Views

friday, 27 november 2009

keeping the dream alive!

thats what my friends who i used to ride motorcycles with who dont own a motorbike this now say im doing...today i went out for a spin instead of going cycling,the roads are salt free after all the rain a few days ago,i didnt bother about winter riding and salt damage and used to kill bikes,brand new bikes ridden into the ground after 4-5 years hard use on and offroad,i cant afford a new motorbike every few years anymore so this one has to last (why i bought a bike with a yamaha XT600 motor)..
today i went a ride and filmed up the road from garvald village into the lammermuir hills to the whiteadder reservoir,the biggest reservoir that supplys east lothian,proberly my favourite road on the motorbike and ideal on a trailbike,
the road climbs and dips passing the old and new monastries,you used to see the monks driving there farm tractors in there robes!,guess health and saftey wont allow that now...
past the iron age hillfort at white castle with an outstanding view north across the county including traprain law,north berwick law and the bass rock,my camera dosnt do the view justice...

a layby with information sign gives access to the hill fort...


also to the west is a good view of the pentland hills south of edinburgh...

the climb from garvald village up to here and over the top of is a test for any cyclist...,ive climed it on the pugsley!,and was well out of puff at the top...
over the top of the side of an unnamed hill but marked at 1131ft the road starts to descend above the whiteadder water,this bit of road is great to cycle as the dips give you momentum to ride up the otherside...the film i made dosnt show angles very well but hopefully this pic explains...
looking north from garvald...

and south towards the whiteadder reservoir...

the only hillfarm on the road is johnscleugh (cleugh means summer pasture)
along from the farm acess road is an old railway goods wagon minus its undercarrage once used for a feed store for sheep...

below the wagon the view up the vally to johnscleugh farm...

joining the main road from gifford to duns you roll over a cattlegrid and down over the resevoir on either side on a armco railed causeway...


the resevoir is stocked with trout and theres boat hire too so you can fish on the shore or on the water...

theres loads more to see and do around here,lots of biking with the herring road-a 20 mile fish cadgers route from dunbar on the coast over the lammermuirs to lauder in the borders,then theres all the shooting tracks,sheperds quad tracks etc...,just have to watch at times of year where you go,sheep and grouse moors being the biggest income on the hills i stay off april,may,august,sept,october,
gets a bit wet in winter but ideal on the pugsley,ive ridden all day up here and hardly seen a soul..,saw no cars today on the hillroad!!,busier sundays,
heading home i went the main (gifford) road to see across to the expanding windfarm over to the east of the lammermuirs at crystal rig,theres still turbines going up,need to get up there soon and have a look around...

heres the film i made now on youtube...      missing

   We need to look further from Garvald Mains Fort, Star Wood, Snawdon ...

Cistercian "Fools of God" by Richard North

Google 28 Oct 2012

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1.   Nunraw Monastery refurbishing 'United Nations task-force'

6.  Fools For God

richarddnorth.com/archive/books/downloads/fools4god.htm

The view from the window, in the south side of the modern Nunraw Abbey, ...... a UN-inspired peace-keeping outfit, and had run up to the monastery because ...... under the heel with fresh denim ('Do you repair your garment with new cloth?

Surfing, above, surfaced Richard North "Fools For God". And thanks to him, the Archive Online version is available in this Link.
His two chapters on the Cistercians at Nunraw show that he has some kind friends.
That was in 1987. Much stream has undergone under bridge in Richard North writing and, in currents, the flow continues on monastic life.
One article is gloriously apt. 'Being a Fly on the Monastery Enclosure'
Our "Fools For GOD" Link opens up a Midas of fruitful associations..

Richard D. North's Fools For God, an account of Christian monasticism (Collins, 1986) is available for free download atwww.richarddnorth.com. More recently Richard D. North is the author of Rich is Beautiful: A Very Personal Defence of Mass Affluence and the just published Scrap the BBC!: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free.

North Richard D Environment Social Affairs 

http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001436.php

MARCH 09, 2007

Being a fly on the monastery enclosure wall: Into Great Silence - Philip Gröning

Posted by Richard D. North

Into Great Silence
Directed by Philip Gröning
certificate U, 2005/2007
www.diegrossestille.de/english/

At my local art-house, there have been packed audiences for Into Great Silence. It's an exceptional account of life at La Grande Chartreuse, the mother Charterhouse near Grenoble in the French Alps. At two and three quarter hours, its running time alone reminds one of the challenges of asceticism. With no voice-over, no obvious narrative trajectory and vast amounts of silence, the piece is a challenge. 

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Richard D. North asks, could Chris McCandless, a.k.a. Alex Supertramp, have made a good monk? Into the Wild - Sean Penn

Posted by Richard D. North

http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001659.php.......

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Spiritual extremism strikes a nerve now as it always has. We have recently had Into Great Silence [see my review: Being a fly on the monastery enclosure wall] the movie about La Grande Chartreuse and it demonstrates that such people still get formed and still greatly pique our curiosity. Indeed, in her book An Infinity of Little Hours: Five young men and their trial of faith, Nancy Klein Maguire has just given a very vivid account of how a handful of young men in the 60s disappeared themselves into the Parkminster charterhouse in England, and in hisFinding Sanctuary, Christopher Jamison, the Abbot of Worth, tells us that Parkminster is full of monks, right now.

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Nunraw New Abbey history of construction 126 from an Album

Nunraw - An Album

Archiving the 'pictures' awakens vivid awareness the sense of daunting in the task of the so called  DIY of the New Abbey. The 'Do It Yourselves' monastery lived the joy of monks and countless helpers in kind and work and, support and enthusiasm.
Monastic prayer primed the spark for every next activity.
The living spirit filled our hearts in the amazing grace of collaborations in building a 'house of God'..
And here, the old story is proof that each 'gem' of picture is worth a million words! 

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             An Album compiled of photographs of moving scenes of the course of building a new monastery at Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw, Scotland, 1946-2012.