Travelling home from our holiday on Friday 5th November, we noticed that there was a red poppy fixed to every lamp post in the market town of Bawtry. It was a moving sight as we drove through the town and the words “lest we forget” echoed around in my head. Bawtry is by no means…
I’ve always found it amusing the way young children love wellies, the sun can be cracking the flags and even so, the choice of footwear for a lot of children will be their wellington boots, I can remember both my children going through the phase and my grandson, who used to refer to them as…
When I was a lad, shopping looked very different to how it does today, we travelled by bus into town and visited a range of different shops to buy different products, each shop with shop assistants behind counters and tills to store the cash that you’d just paid with. I remember going as a family…
When our girls were growing up, we bought a season ticket each year for Eureka! The children’s museum in Halifax. It is a museum designed to capture the imagination of children from birth to eleven and grown-ups are only permitted if accompanying children. Our season ticket was money well spent as our girls walked through…
In the good old days, when I was living at home with my parents, we would have a clear out every so often and fill the back of the car with a load of our junk and drive down to the tip at Rodley and lob it all in a skip. The most stressful part…
I remember visiting western Scotland for the first time, many years ago. We were camping in Dumfries and Galloway, a beautiful part of the country and my eyes nearly popped out of my head as I saw palm trees growing along the coastline. I thought that this was to be expected in some of our…
Dear everybody, We are taking tentative steps forward at the beginning of the new connexional year, my intention was to launch the new circuit quarterly plan at the beginning of September, but events somewhat overtook us, and things didn’t quite go according to plan. Our hope is that we will be working on the December,…
We possibly all remember iconic moments in television history, like the day the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London in May 1980 bringing to an end a hostage siege. I remember watching the news on the evening of Saturday 5th June 1993, the day that the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough fell from it’s…
As a child growning up in the sixties, I remember our family having a huge respect for food, which we don’t seem to have today. Dinner was plated up and put in front of you and you were expected to eat what mum had cooked and eat all of it, we weren’t allowed to be…
When we first saw our new home in Ipswich eight years ago, one of the big attractions to the property was the fields opposite. As a child, I grew up in a house which looked out over fields and I can remember many happy hours playing out in the fields. Almost as soon as we…