Forty one years ago, as a recently married couple, my husband and I decided to buy an artificial tree for our first Christmas together. It cost us £29.99 and we were worried about the amount we had spent, but our tree is unpacked each year and is as good as the day we bought it. The…
I’m writing this Thought for the Day on Thursday and I’m so looking forward to Friday. I’m going to London to meet my son, Richard who is returning to the UK for a month. He lives in Singapore, and apart from on Zoom, I haven’t seen him since July. We are going to have some…
The temperature has dropped and we have been given warnings of snowfalls on their way. I love to look at snow and all the beautiful patterns which it makes. Another of God’s wonderful creations. It’s so clean and bright and white but in my mind it’s treacherous. I’m terrified of walking in the snow when it’s…
The photo which accompanies this article is of a Cyclamen in my garden. The pot which it was in had somehow got hidden underneath an old table and I thought the plant had died as basically there was only the bulb remaining. I eventually brought it out into the open and decided to give it…
On Tuesday a group of us who take part in Open the Book acted out the story of Eve being tempted and eating the forbidden fruit. God’s perfect world became imperfect. The moral of the story reinforced to the children one of their core values of Honesty and knowing the difference between doing bad and doing good.…
On the 26th August 1971 at the age of 17years and 8 months I started my nursing training at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Belfast was not a great place to live in the 1970’s and we worked under extremely stressful conditions due to the political situation. The news these days regarding the wars in…
A few months ago, I wrote about my first attempt at growing tomatoes. I fed and watered them and put in supports as necessary. Daily checks were carried out and I worried about them if it was very windy. I also counted them as I picked them to eat. The final total was 265/267. (I…
The Ferris Wheel in Felixstowe is in the process of being dismantled. It’s quite interesting to see how each day a bit more of it is craned onto the back of a lorry. Some of the pieces are huge and obviously very strong. They would need to be strong as thousands of people have had…
Recently a very dear friend of mine died. Her daughter gave me a couple of her cookery books to look at and see whether I wanted to keep them or pass them on to someone else. Inside one of them I found a bookmark with a very touching verse on it. It said: “A Friend…
I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what message I had sent to friends on the 14th October 2020 and on reading it the message applies just as much today as it did 3 years ago. The thought was based on Exodus 17 v 12. “In 1989, paraplegic Mark Wellman climbed…