Tomorrow will be a whole new experience as granddaughter senior goes to a trial gymnastics session. She has been obsessed with bouncing and being upside down for some time now. For her birthday she had a beam screwed into her bedroom floor to enable her to twist and twiddle round it. I’ve never really understood…

Reading through today’s gospel passage (Luke 5:12-16) I remembered that when I was younger I was infuriated by the comment, ‘I won’t bother’. I knew someone who used it a lot. At the time I thought he was very lazy, but it was only years later that I realised he lacked confidence and may often…

www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/pray/daily-reading Something to read Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshippers,…

The recent announcement, in a local paper, that the Broomhill Lido (swimming people to people of my age) is to re-open in 2026 brought back a memory from around 70 years ago. Before attending senior, and while at Primary, school in our final year we used to visit another swimming pool for “lessons” though I…

Who me?           What am I doing here?                                                                                                                                                Have you ever suffered from “Imposter Syndrome”?                                                                                              Surely someone else could do a better job than me?                                                                             I’ll mess up, I’ll fail, this is all a terrible mistake? I remember when I was at university, I failed a respiratory physiology exam and that was the end…

I love the books written by the Yorkshire vet Alf Wight or “James Herriot” as we know him.  I think that the man is a genius to have the idea of writing the stories of his experiences of working as a rural vet.  I remember laughing when I first read them, I loved the film…

Today is a very special day in my life. It’s my son, Richard’s birthday. He lives in Singapore and we had a wonderful time over the Christmas period when he was home to see us and to visit his friends. Needless to say, his case was quite heavy when he was travelling back as he…

Back after the Christmas break, the Mothers and Toddlers group were making calendars.  Granddaughter hastily and clumsily donned a plastic apron, scrambled onto the dauntingly high adult chair and surveyed the scene on the table. She gleamed over to me with a look that said “Really Grandma? Accessible plates of coloured paint? Are you sure…

Our holiday in the Lake District in the Autumn of 2020 was memorable. It was very wet. While we were there the Prime Minister announced the second lockdown which started. But we were heartily thankful to be able to get away at all. On a walk up the Copper Mines Valley to Levers Water we…

Daniel had every reason to feel down about his situation, he had lost everything he knew:  his family, his country, the teachings and priestly worship in the temple, the annual festivals, his hopes and expectations for the future, even his name.  In their place he now lived in a pagan culture, where the people worshipped…