Summer suns are glowing over land and sea,
happy light is flowing, bountiful and free.
Everything rejoices in the mellow rays,
all earth's thousand voices swell the psalm of praise.
One of this morning’s hymns in church was changed for this as it’s rarely appropriate on a summer Sunday and even at 11 o’clock this evening the temperature in my garden is 19c which is not often reached even in the daytime.
Summer suns were glowing over the ruins of St Baldred’s Church beside Tyninghame House as we visited the beautiful gardens there on its Open Day.  The church traditionally stands on the site of his monastery which was destroyed by the Danes in 941 and the church was then rebuilt in the 12th century and remained the parish church for Tyninghame until the village was relocated to the west in 1761. 
St Baldred lived as a hermit in the local area and after his death about 756 at Tynninghame was buried there although
Following Baldred's death on the site of this chapel, there was a dispute between the parishes of  Auldhame, Tyninghame and Prestonkirk as to which should have his body. The story goes that by the advice of a holy man, they spent the night in prayer. In the morning three bodies were found, in all respects alike, each in its winding sheet, prepared for burial. The story was probably invented to explain the claims of each church to house the shrineof Saint Baldred.
The early monastery of St Baldred at Tyninghame belonged to the monks of Lindisfarne who had lands in the area and so eventually his body was removed to Durham Cathedral in the early 11th century.   Now the church ruins hold the remains of a few of the Earls of Haddington’s family who used to own the large impressive house until it was sold 30 years ago. (extra)