Every month seems to come round quicker and quicker! Here we are in the month of Remembrance once again. Thinking about the Gunpowder plot, laying explosives under the Houses of Parliament, resonates with what is going on in Gaza as I write this. The tunnels packed with weaponry by Hamas under innocent buildings with people…
One piece of homework I used to set my RE students in year 9 as part of a unit on prejudice and discrimination, was to re-write Jesus’ parable of The Good Samaritan in a modern day setting. So, I would receive versions such as The Good …….’Punk’ or ‘Liverpool Supporter’ or ‘Crack Addict’. If Jesus…
My granddaughter recently discovered Stickle bricks at Humpty Dumpty club, and, as it’s not a toy she has at home, we were sitting at a table exploring what we could make and sorting the pieces into sizes and colours. As we played, the little one was keeping an eye on what was going on around…
It was a lovely warm sunny afternoon when Humpty Dumpty club (mothers and toddlers) restarted after the summer break. My granddaughter was ready in her buggy when I arrived to collect her and bounced with excitement as we entered the hall. She is getting familiar with the surroundings and the routines, so once she was…
By the time you read this, my youngest granddaughter will have had her second birthday, but in September her elder sister celebrated her own birthday. As Grandmas do, when I gave her a present of Disney Lego, the little one had a small set of Duplo bath time Lego to unwrap. They had just returned…
It was a bright sunny morning late in August as I made my way to Aldi to do my weekly shop. I was counting my blessings as the sun warmed my shoulders and I looked forward to the long Bank Holiday weekend that stretched ahead of me. Nothing could spoil my happiness, or so I…
More than half-way through September now, it strikes me that it’s a month of transitions. The beginning of the Methodist and the School Year. New schools, new classes, new teachers, new friends, new activities. A new season – the Fall (of the leaf) as opposed to the Spring (of the leaf) or autumn as we…
Today we remember the Battle of Britain. It was a turning point in WW2. If the RAF hadn’t held off the Luftwaffe, Hitler would likely have moved on with Operation Sea lion land invasion of the British Isles. Who’s to say what would have happened then? Britons would have been devastated and the move to…
8th September is officially Star Trek Day. The US TV series that ‘boldly went where no one had ever gone before’ was first aired in 1966. I loved this programme when I was young and remember that it used to be broadcast on a Wednesday evening – and so nothing else could be booked for…
A couple of weeks ago, we went to the cinema to watch the latest ‘Mission Impossible’ film. Since I hadn’t seen any of the others in the franchise, I had been given a crash course and screening of most of those in the series so that I was grounded in the necessary character profiles and…