The world of what I originally discovered as ‘talking books’ is one I have enjoyed for several years. When driving or walking the chance to listen to a book being read, sometimes excellently, is a joy. I vary what I listen to but take especial delight in revisiting the old classics. I have just revisited…
Don’t drive round with loads of heavy clutter in your boot.
As a young man, Joseph Scriven had been engaged to a woman he deeply loved. But tragedy struck the night before their wedding when the boat she was in capsized and she drowned. In the hope of forgetting the shock, which he never did, Joseph left his home in Ireland and went to Canada. There he…
Put low energy, or even better LED, light bulbs in your house.
Dear everybody, We are taking tentative steps forward at the beginning of the new connexional year, my intention was to launch the new circuit quarterly plan at the beginning of September, but events somewhat overtook us, and things didn’t quite go according to plan. Our hope is that we will be working on the December,…
Those of us of a certain age may remember a song by Carol King on her Tapestry album entitled “I feel the earth move.” The chorus has the following lines: I feel the earth move under my feetI feel the sky come a tumbling downI feel my heart start tremblingwhenever you’re around. This song is…
Put a water-saving device like a hippo or similar in your toilet cistern.
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B 10th October 2021 Lectionary Readings: Amos 5 v6-7, 10-15; Psalm 90 v12-17; Hebrews 4 v12-16; Mark 10 v17-31. Money can’t buy you love. In Mark’s account of Jesus’ encounter with a rich man, (a ‘young’ man in Matthew’s account), Jesus acknowledges that the unnamed man is sincere…
On one of my rest days in September, I went for a walk in the Dedham Vale near Stratford St Mary …
We possibly all remember iconic moments in television history, like the day the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in London in May 1980 bringing to an end a hostage siege. I remember watching the news on the evening of Saturday 5th June 1993, the day that the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough fell from it’s…