One of the projects at several of the churches in the Ipswich Circuit have embraced over the last couple of years has been the introduction of free little pantries and at the time of writing six of our churches are successfully running pantries. There is a notice inside which invites people to take what they…
Having got the Election, the Euro’s and Wimbledon out of the way, we now have the Olympics and for the next fortnight the news, the papers, and the television schedules will be dominated by the games and whether this is just the sort of news we have been looking forward to, or we are irritated…
I took my daughter to our local health centre recently, I noticed that when we arrived, she had to get out of the car before I reversed fully into the parking space, chiefly because the space would allow sufficient room for the car, so long as we didn’t want to get out of it! I…
Leaving the supermarket the other day we saw a young couple with a little girl maybe about eighteen months to two years old. She was ever so cute and was carrying a little handbag, clearly to be like mum, she headed across to the wire shopping baskets and struggled to try to pick one up,…
Karen and I spent a delightful morning recently at the Methodist Heritage Centre at Wighton near Wells in North Norfolk, where a small group of volunteers have worked diligently to gather memorabilia from Methodism to display in the old chapel, which has now been repurposed. I spent time looking around and as I did memories…
It was only when it was over that I learned that Saturday 8th June 2024 had been designated as “Dave’s Day” a day to remember the TV presenter and half of the “Hairy Bikers” duo who died at the end of February this year following a two-year battle with cancer. Around six thousand motorcycles travelled…
I received a flyer through my door the other day from one of the political parties obviously chasing my vote in the up and coming general election, I had to laugh, because they did an amazing job of explaining what a terrible place Ipswich is and all the things that are wrong with the town…
Responding to advice from the doctor we took a few days off recently and spent the best part of a week with our daughter in Norwich, she currently has two rabbit’s and a guinea pig. I remember the day we first met Lola the rabbit three or four years ago, she was a tiny bundle…
My first memory of Brooke Methodist Chapel was Saturday 5th February 2005 when I arrived with my family on our visit for my potential new appointment as the minister. I would have three churches, of which Brooke was my small village chapel with a membership of about fifteen and I confess that having landed from…
Many years ago, when I was a Sunday School teacher, I came up with a brilliant idea for an illustration for a point I wanted to get across. The only problem was that I needed something I didn’t have, but the idea was so good, that I decided to call in at the paper shop…