This morning I felt the need for exercise and needed to go to our local Post Office. It was one of those beautiful sunny Suffolk days with blue sky and big white fluffy clouds. As I walked by the fields the various crops were looking almost ready for harvesting. In some of the fields the…

Hopefully as you sit with your cuppa taking time to read this, I will be in sunny Cornwall, not far from the coast three hundred and seventy miles away in Cornwall. Hopefully, I will be sitting out in the sun, but knowing my luck with holidays, it will be pouring with rain!  I love holiday,…

One of the hymns which has been going through my mind recently has been Rock of Ages, cleft for me (StF 434) written by Augustus Toplady.  I was surprised to find it is still in our recent hymn book and was quite prepared for it to have been left out. One saying is that Augustus…

I’m writing this on holiday in Brittany. There’s a perfumery called Beauty Success on a side street. How the French love some franglais! The shop sells a wide range of lovely face creams, perfumes and other toiletries. I enjoy wearing a little makeup and a good moisturiser, but I’m under no illusions. I’m never going…

By the time you read this we should be away on holiday, somewhere off the coast of Norway enjoying a trip we had planned, booked and paid for before Covid derailed everyone’s best intentions. I will believe it when we get there, such is the effect of the last two years of changed plans and…

We recently spent a few days in London. Although we used the trains and underground to get from place to place, we walked miles. It’s easy to tot up the steps walking through the tunnels to exits and from train line to train line! Since the weather was so good, we choose to walk to…