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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy St George's Day! England is a stunningly beautiful country, with so many landscapes squeezed into such tight geographical space. Every direction you turn there's the sea, in all its moods.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Exploring the Emmaus road at Forest Church, with labyrinths to help us reflect on how Jesus walks alongside us. We baked communion bread on the fire, used one loaf for the Eucharist, and ate the rest with wild garlic butter ✝️🕯️⚓

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Ice creams, pizza from pizza vending machine, a sunny spot by the swimming pool, pottering round a French town centre. We love a cheap cheap caravan site for post Easter break.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Some of our family are setting off on the high seas (to a French caravan park!).

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! 🐣🐰 My day started with storytelling salvation round a fire before dawn, then the absolute joy of celebrating this marvellous mystery at the altar- second Easter as a priest and I'm still pinching myself. Our oven decided to break so we cooked lunch for family in the church hall! ✝️🕯️

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Garden of Repose. The Maundy Thursday liturgy is such a powerful emotional journey. ✝️⚓

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We have had a wonderful Lent Cookalong zoom (how very 2020), fasting from our regular Weds night dinners to eat in solidarity with friends from Iran, Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines. We've been joined each time by people from each country to laugh at our cooking attempts and pray for us. ✝️

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Behind the scenes in Holy Week. Burning the leftover holy oils before Chrism Mass tomorrow. ✝️⚓

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Brilliant to spend time on the streets yesterday at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March. Felt like the perfect way to prepare for the story of Holy Week, which after all starts with crowds on the streets. 'Christian people, what are we for? A bigger table, an open door!'

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A whole herd of hobby donkeys joined our Palm Sunday procession round to church, where we took part in a dramatised reading of the gospel, and made bracelets to remember each part of holy week (can you guess which colours represent which day?).

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My late March London woods say hello.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I'm looking forward to speaking about 'Mud and Wonder: how we can explore our spirituality in nature', at this conference run by my friends as Grund School, Oradea, Romania, focussed on outdoor education and pedagogy. Booking link here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Looking forward to @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social 🙌 If you're coming, pop these two things in your diary. Come and make kites with me as an act of worship, and listen to stories about hosting refugees with @refugeesathome.bsky.social

Winds of Hope
Greenbelt is a place where, like it or not, we are much more aware of the weather than usual. Join Rachel Summers to explore what God has to say about the wind, to play and create together as we make and fly kites as an act of worship.
Sun 12.30 Shelter

The Hosts with the Most
Join our partners Refugees at Home to hear stories from hosts who've volunteered with them to offer short-term stays for refugees.

Fri 6.30 Hot House

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I couldn't run my usual family retreat week this year, coz appendicitis 😭. My lovely friends all pitched in and got it done 🥰 Would just like to note that 1 Rachel carries the force of five people. ADHD ftw 💪

Message reads, 'we all missed you. We're shattered and that's between 5 of us running it between us'

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Huge thanks to Allan for writing the background stories to my childhood and my children's childhoods. My favourites to read to my children were Peepo, which is a work of warm human genius, and Each Peach Pear Plum where the rhyme gallops along to a satisfying plum pie finale.

bbc.co.uk

Allan Ahlberg, celebrated children's author, dies aged 87

He wrote more than 150 books, including The Jolly Postman and Each Peach Pear Plum.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Spent my weekend having appendicitis. 💯 do not recommend. It's good to be home, hoping for a boring and uneventful recovery.

Feet back home in a comfortable bed with the forest outside the window.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Fruit of the earth and work of human hands (our hands, we collected grains of wheat from ears of corn, threshed them, ground them, made dough and cooked it). Fruit of the vine and work of human feet (we stomped on grapes in a ziplock and added to wine). Blessed be God for ever!

Chalice with wine and paten with very rustic flat bread!

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Have I told you you are wonderfully made? Enjoying Waltham Forest Pride with local inclusive churches.

Hand holding a postcard with pride flag and words 'You are wonderfully made'.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Was just sitting drinking my cocoa when Daphne jumped up on my lap for a cuddle 🐔

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Look, when it comes to reducing channel crossings you have two main options: 1) Invent a time machine and stop Britain colonising half the world so that people do not have strong ties to the country 2) Provide safer and simpler options to seek asylum without having to use irregular routes. #r4today

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I'm so excited about this. ✝️⚓

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Great for @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social to be able to host a screening of The Nettle Dress and nettle themed activities thanks to the London Forest School Association. What a varied day- I started with an 8am BCP communion service!

Backs of heads in a church, film on a screen.

Collage of photos of activities with nettles

Collage of photos of nettle based food items!

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Twenty years ago I was a member of an internet message board (remember those?) of mums with new babies. One of those babies had the absolute coolest small sibling, one of those awesome internet babies, toddlers, children, teens who you never meet but you think are absolutely brilliant.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

It's St Peter's day, the saint our church is named after, and our patronal festival! Come along this Sunday to explore St Peter's qualities and the ways we try to embody these as a church, while we make Rocky Road for Peter the Rock 🪨

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#30DaysWild day 19 A beautifully small but special eucharist and benediction for thanksgiving of the institution of holy communion aka Corpus Christi. I collected rose petals, and they were scattered in the path of the holy sacrament as we walked round @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social ✝️⚓

Baskets of rose petals and service sheets

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

#30DaysWild day 15 The elderflower champagne 🍾 was drinkable to celebrate Solly's confirmation today! 🕊️

Confirmed young man with champagne glass

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Interested in worship outside? I'm leading a workshop at this conference in September. Booking link here: htl.churchsuite.com/events/rr1eu... ✝️⚓

WL presents...

Praying & Playing in Creation!

OUTDOOR CHURCH CONFERENCE

SATURDAY

27th September 2025

09:30am-15:30pm

£12 (including lunch & refreshments)

£10 EARLY BIRD TICKETS (available before 14th July)

£8 YOUNG LEADERS aged 13-18 (attend with an adult)

£FREE CHILDREN aged 0-12 (accompanied by parent/carer)

VENUE:

Launde Abbey

Whether you're a regular Forest Church leader or just Interested in exploring worship outside for the first time, Join us for a family-friendly, relaxed Outdoor Church Gathering. There will be opportunities to worship together and walk alongside our experienced workshop hosts in small groups.

10 amazing Workshop hosts, including...

Rachel Summers Author of Wild Worship

Sara Hargreaves Author of Outdoor Worship

Activities for all-ages

This is a 'walking conference', all sessions will happen outside in the grounds of Launde Abbey. Wheelchair accessible routes are available.

Launde Abbey

"Bring a deckchair and travel mug with you"

CONTACT:

Anne Scott (Leicester)-07856776604

Book here: https://htl.churchsuite.com/events/rrleu611

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#30DaysWild day 14 Hanging out in my hammock, enjoying the trees, listening to a very noisy green woodpecker (but I didn't see it).

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#30DaysWild day 14 Hanging out in my hammock, enjoying the trees, listening to a very noisy green woodpecker (but I didn't see it).

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California Photo: Rick Goldwaser

The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#30DaysWild day 13 We have a family of crows in our garden. Parents and two babies. The babies are cute and huge and clever and funny. They literally roll on the ground play fighting. They sit with wide open beaks so dada and mama crow can pop things in their mouths.

Baby crow receives water dropped into its mouth by kind parent crow.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What if this bridge was a park? What if this concrete was a vibrant meadow, buzzing with life and waving grasses when the breeze blows? What if this shuttered shop front was a door open to a place filled with the fragrance of Pakistani mangoes?

Spray painted stencil reads, 'what if this bridge was a park?'
Boot toes for scale

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#30DaysWild Day 12 Feeling a bit grotty today so enjoying the trees from my bed. Whatever the problem, trees can help.

Si la chaleur vous dérange, plantez un arbre.

Si la pluie vous dérange, plantez un arbre.

Si vous aimez les fruits, plantez un arbre.

Si vous aimez les diseaux, plantez un arbre.

Si vous aimez la vie, plantez des arbres...

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Fb: Beauté Naturelle

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#30DaysWild Day 11 Collecting sticks from a scruffy patch by the side of the road to share their sticky wisdom at a conference about estates ministry. Lovely versatile sticks 🥰 This is not a stick, this is a...

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#30DaysWild day 10 Urban fox in urban meadows in Woodford Wells.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

An exploration of moss & monotropic ways of being. An invitation to slow down, sink in & reconnect through sensory depth & shared presence in liminal spaces. autisticrealms.com/mossy-minds-mono…

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

#30DaysWild Day 08 Making and flying kites at our outdoor Sunday school 🪁

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philpixy7.bsky.social @philpixy7.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

#wildflowerhour Great loads of ox eye daisies around at the moment.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Eight years ago we hosted a young pregnant woman through @refugeesathome.bsky.social Things had been very difficult for her, and she ended up with a crash C-section. It was touch and go for her and her impossibly tiny one.

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Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

#30DaysWild Day 7 A few years ago when doing this challenge month, I decided to try to sniff every rose I came across. It's a habit that's stuck, and which I commend to you now.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

a slightly grumpy looking tuxedo kitty, lounging in a wood tray filled with straw, with a medal round his neck.

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