My son recently returned from Australia for a holiday after 3 and a half years away. He and his girlfriend flew into Manchester airport, as they were visiting her parents initially. I did feel momentarily envious that they were going there first, but then realised they would have got over the jetlag by the time…

We have a season ticket for Jimmy’s farm, just south of Ipswich where we live, and it is some of the best money I have ever spent, we get our money’s worth out of our ticket and visit the farm frequently.  Over the last few years we have got to know some of the staff…

I was privileged on Easter Sunday to lead worship at Chantry Methodist Church.  I decided to have an Easter Carol Service which led us through all the resurrection events detailed in the four Gospels with hymns, prayers, readings and meditations. We had a wonderful sing and really needed our coffee afterwards, but it was a…

With the sky clouded over and the evidence of heavy rainfall to be seen everywhere in the sky and on the roads, pavements and gutters, one hesitates to speak of ‘glory’. Glory bespeaks light, radiance, illumination, brightness and effulgence. It is the very antithesis of clouds and darkness, rain and puddles.The RSV Handy concordance begins…

A family member attended a funeral recently at which a hymn was sung that none of us had ever come across before. It has vanished from use and seems not to be in any of the resources I have access to, both printed hymn books or online. Thinking about old hymns reminded me of one…