I recently watched a programme about “The Great Storm of 1987”. Various people were talking about their memories of the night the storm came. Kew Gardens were very badly affected with the loss of many trees but the one that stuck out for me was a large veteran oak which had simply been lifted out…

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Rev Derek Grimshaw Many years ago, when I first started training as a Local Preacher, an older and wiser preacher advised me to try and avoid ever preaching on Trinity Sunday “it is the most challenging Sunday and I never offer an appointment on that…

Something to read I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. – Ephesians 3:18-19 from full reading…

We live very close to the River Gipping. There is a pair of swans resident along the bank. They are large, majestic and quite intimidating. I decided to research the lives of swans, because although beautiful to watch swimming, to me, their necks seem very long and awkward and I wondered how they supported their…