Many people, not least schoolchildren, rejoice at the sight of a mid-winter snowfall but not so my wife – and that applied even when she was a school child! Indeed, on one of her first schools days as a 5-year old she tells me that she had to crawl up the school drive on hands…

I always find this time of year particularly challenging because of the shorter hours of daylight, poorer weather conditions and the colder temperatures. Being paid to travel around the beautiful lanes of Norfolk is an absoute delight during the warmer months, but at this time of year road are prone to flooding and potholes lurk…

Traditionally Shrove Tuesday (Mardi gras) is the day that Christians eat up all the rich foods (including pancakes) before the forty day season of Lent starts on Ash Wednesday.  This year is special as the celebrations of Lent, Ramadan and the Lunar New Year all coincide – a rare occurrence that won’t happen again until…

Usually when someone says that something is a ‘blot on the landscape’ they refer to an unsightly human construction in the midst of nature. Or they note an out of place development amidst other more pleasing architecture. Looking across the fields recently in the February sunshine there was one ploughed field, recently relieved of its…

Today I want to introduce you to 2 fathers who each reflected in their lives some aspects of their Heavenly Father’s character.  Ron had a wife and 3 children and he was active in his church. Sadly Ron’ s wife left the family to start a new life elsewhere, leaving Ron to juggle the demands…

Last week, I was watching a reporter, standing in water in the West Country, commenting that it had been raining for 47 days. He added, “It is almost Biblical proportions”. Reading the story of Noah again, starting in Genesis 6 verse 9, made me consider what would happen if the rain became heavier and non-stop.…

Following on from last week’s TFTD about rocks, this Thought also involves rocks. The seawall on the coastal path south of Port Macquarie has paintings on the rocks. Most of these appear to be personal memorials to loved ones. However I came across this rock with the inscription “maybe you’re the lighthouse in someone else’s…