The Mysterious Moving Stones of Surrey

It was a conversation at the Family Service planning group meeting this evening which reminded me of something I should have posted about back in February. I was locking up the church and noticed that perched on the angles of the porch woodwork were two quirkily-decorated stones. 

They turned out to be part of a minor craze for painting stones with faces or encouraging messages ('Be different', says the upper one here, with its three owls one of whom hangs below the bar) and leaving them in random places. The idea is to take the stone and leave it in another random place for someone else to find, and you can post photographs of them on various online locations if you should feel so disposed. 

I thought the whole thing was silly but rather charming. I thought it had disappeared after a month or so, like an episode of unseasonably warm weather blowing through, but apparently not. We talked about incorporating the idea into a service. Prayer stones, there's an idea.