Every so often, for a treat when we were little, my Mum would buy my brother and myself (this was when we were very young and there were only two of us) a cream doughnut as a special treat – the long ones that are split in half lengthways and filled with cream and jam.…

Today is the World Day of Prayer (formerly the Women’s World Day of Prayer). If you are able to attend a local World Day of Prayer service today – please do. However, it is possible to search for it on google and be part of the worship in your own home if you are unable…

If the baby was fretful all day – that would be a long tiring day.  However, if they screamed and screamed, generally it didn’t last long, either it would be obvious what was wrong and it could be sorted with a nappy change or a dose of paracetamol or they would tire themselves out and…

You know how sometimes you try to avoid something only to find that God won’t let it go and basically, He throws it in Your face so often that You have to give in albeit ever so reluctantly?  Well, that’s how it’s been with me recently and mud. Yes, God just keeps throwing it at…

Wherever I have been this week, shop windows have been covered in hearts – mostly red but one phone shop particularly had blue ones. Love is in the air. I was reminded of my Dad singing the good old hymn, ’Jesus loves me, this I know’. He wasn’t a church goer in his later years…

February – the shortest month – some years doesn’t even contain a full moon, depending on how the dates fall. It was named after the Latin term ‘februum’ meaning purification since the Christian festival of Candlemas recognises Mary’s purification after the birth of Jesus occurs on the 2nd February. It’s a season of change as…

In the last few days I have rediscovered the beauty of frost. Crunching my way in the semi darkness to an early breakfast meeting, the glittery sparkles of frost underfoot blew me away. It struck me that it was so much more beautiful even than newly laid untouched snow. When I looked at car rooves…

My Mum chooses a Psalm every year. When I asked her which she had chosen for 2025, she told me it is Psalm 99. She’s hand written it into the front of her diary and will refer to it regularly as the year rolls on. I read it through and to me it divides into…

One of my grandsons will have had his fifth birthday on 14th January. After Christmas, it always seems to creep up on me every year, so as soon as the New Year celebrations were over, I texted my daughter to ask what I should get him. Apparently, they are preparing to remove his stabilisers from…

Later today, I will be travelling into London to a fashion show. Not that I’m up with the latest trends and designs. Anyone who knows me will be well aware of that! However, it has become an annual event that soon after Twelfth Night, I attend a certain designer’s show by special invitation. For that…