News (Page 173)

Kindness

On the first day of our summer holiday, we called at Morrisons supermarket at Enterprise Five in Bradford, Karen, my wife fell and consequently we spent the first evening of our holiday at A&E at the Bradford Royal Infirmary where we discovered that not only had she broken her elbow, but she also had arthritis…

The warmth of the sun

My family are all Lego fans and in fact my son’s partner took him to visit Legoland at Windsor for his 40th birthday present just the other weekend. I now get lovely flowers to build with Lego and the photo I’ve included is of my two sunflowers. I like sunflowers as they look happy with…

Commission Impossible?

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the cinema to watch the latest ‘Mission Impossible’ film. Since I hadn’t seen any of the others in the franchise, I had been given a crash course and screening of most of those in the series so that I was grounded in the necessary character profiles and…

Special Places

On our recent holiday in The Lake District, we climbed Great Gable. The Westmorland Cairn at one side of the rocky summit of the mountain was a special place for my Grandparents and my aunts. Standing there overlooking Wasdale and, when the mist allowed, looking across to Scafell Pike I was reunited with past generations…

To take offence-or not?

This thought was first published on 8th January 2021 Recalling undertakers I have known, there was one who went appropriately by the name of Mr Death, but who pronounced his name rather less ominously as Mr De’ath. But more significantly, I remember one saying in my hearing: “I wish these ministers didn’t keep harping on…