At 7:10am on Thursday 14th March 2013 we became grandparents, and I will always remember the first couple of weeks of my grandson’s life, I was besotted and had to have my daily fix of seeing him. Like most grandads I guess, I thought that my grandson was the most beautiful person who had ever…
For several years, The Great North Run was a big event in our family, and we made an annual pilgrimage during September to support family members and friends from Church as they made their way from Newcastle Upon Tyne out to South Shields. Not that I have ever even contemplating taking part, anybody who has…
Way back in the latter part of the nineteenth century a wealthy Halifax businessman Sir Henry Edwards had a long-standing feud with neighbouring landowner John Edward Wainhouse. To prove his superiority, Edwards built a large house standing in its own land and boasted that he had the most private estate in Halifax, and nobody could…
Dear friends,As we move through October things are starting to pick up in the life of the Circuit and our Churches and I thought that it might be helpful to flag up two or three events. Occasions like this don’t happen very often in a lot of Circuits, please come along and support Ruth. Please…
The comedian Peter Kay said in one of his routines a few years ago that he liked to take his mam shopping, because in doing so, that allowed him to legitimately park in a parent and child parking space. The thought of a grown man in his mid to late forties taking his mum shopping,…
Dear friends, Channel four are currently screening their modern adaptation of the James Herriot story “All creatures great and small” I loved reading the books, more than once and whilst I loved the original BBC story screened from 1978-1990 starring Christopher Timothy, I love the new series. I often find that when we have had…
Back in 2016 The BBC screened the first series of the BAFTA award winning drama series “The A Word” which tells the story of the Hughes family who live in Cumbria and are coming to terms with the truth that their little boy, Joe has been diagnosed with autism. Joe’s parents go through the agony…
Dear friends, Karen and I enjoy going to Church when we are away on holiday, mainly because we seldom have the opportunity to sit together in worship, and I believe that it is good for me to be able to receive and be fed instead of always being the one who is attempting to preach.…
How often have we said in recent weeks that we are experiencing once in a lifetime events, or being a part of the process of writing history? Just as we have witnessed the whole experience of the Queens platinum jubilee, something never seen in history before and the proclamation of a new king, this week…
At the ripe old age of sixty-three and fifty-nine, with arthritis and diabetes, my wife and I have decided to take up camping, just at the point when folk of our age are promoting themselves onto motorhomes. To quickly kill the image you have in your mind of two of us crawling into a two-man…