Way back in 1987 we had a holiday in north Cornwall, staying in the tiny village of Crackington Haven, we decided to travel to Bude one evening and I spotted a short cut.  Travelling along a single track road we went over the brow of a hill and were faced with this sight.  The photograph…

The Thought for the Day is taken from Proverbs 2 v 10-11.For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you Toward the close of World War II, one Allied unit was assigned a crucial mission in Berlin. Each soldier had to memorise…

It is said that one of the reasons that Da Vinci’s painting of ‘The Last Supper’ took four years to complete was that when it was almost finished, a friend commented to the artist that he found the painting incredibly moving – especially the silver cup on the table. “It was brilliant, beautiful!” he said,”…

Those who know me will not be surprised to learn that as a child I disliked see-saws, roundabouts, and swings. Roundabouts are the least offensive to me as they have the advantage of not constantly delivering shocks and changing direction. To this day I cannot lose the memory of having to take the children on…

“One word of Truth…” is the title of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s acceptance speech when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The title is part of a Russian proverb which says ‘One word of truth outweighs the whole world’. In the news very recently you will almost certainly heard or read that a…