One of my prized possessions when I was a child was my 1960s Corgi Austin A60 De Luxe Motor School Car. I think that I might have received it as a Christmas present when I was about seven or eight years old. My brother had an identical car, so I am guessing that they were…

It was quite a bitter pill to swallow having to come home from holiday on Saturday, 23rd August 2025, because my wife was in such pain with her legs. I know that makes me sound like a dreadful husband, but we had looked forward so much to spending a fortnight in our beloved Yorkshire, catching…

We had a holiday in North Cornwall in the summer of 2022 and camped just outside the lovely seaside town of Bude, we had spent holidays in this area when our girls were younger, so it was one of those holidays of revisiting some memorable haunts. We mooched around the shops in Bideford and saw…

Sitting in my study a few days ago, I heard a clicking noise that I couldn’t identify, looking around I spotted a little green bird standing on the windowsill and tapping on the window with his beak (sorry, my new little friend might be female of course) regardless he was a beautiful little chap with…

For many years Karen and I went to St Andrews Methodist Church in Undercliffe Bradford and one of the features of life in that Church was Scarborough Weekend. Every year during November a large group of us would take over Green Gables hotel (pictured above) and in its heyday we would number a hundred plus…

We have just spent a wonderful week in the North East on holiday with our eldest daughter and our grandson. I had two main objectives for the holiday: the first was putting the new mobility scooter through its paces and secondly, as my daughter puts it perfectly, making memories for our grandson. During the course…

There are times in my work when I meet some amazing and wonderful people. I recently had the privilege of meeting the daughter of some church members who is working in Gaza, this was not some formal meeting, it was simply a chat over a cuppa after a service. All we seem to hear about…

I maybe ought to have written this thought last Sunday, but to be honest, I wasn’t even aware that last Sunday was the London Marathon until after I had written last Sunday’s thought.  I’m glad that I didn’t write something, because it would have been very different to how I feel today.  No doubt some…

This thought was first published on 24th December 2023 One of my favourite Christmas songs is “O holy night” I remember a few years ago hearing a teenage girl singing the song and she was pitch perfect, (as far as I could tell) it was a thing of beauty, and I can still remember feeling…

On Monday 23rd March 2020, as the nation fast approached lockdown due to the Covid 19 Coronavirus pandemic, I remember sitting at my desk and thinking “what do I do with myself now?” I had a load of meetings in my diary and services to conduct, and at a stroke of a pen, everything was…