Do you have any crocus flowers in your garden? I can remember when I was in the infant school, the crocus was the subject of much artwork – being reasonably simple to draw and one of the first flowers to appear after the winter. It isn’t native to our country, but originated in the Mediterranean…

We live in a house in which there are clocks in almost all rooms. They are synchronised on Sundays when they are wound and put right but as the week goes on, they drift apart, affected by air pressure and temperature and all the other things that old clocks are influenced by. One thing is…

Continuing my thoughts about Our Heavenly Father and earthly fathers, I am looking at a friend Michael’s experiences of his father. Born in Australia, Michael lived for his first 7 years happily with his mother and father, mainly in New Guinea where his father, an ordained Methodist minister, was serving as a missionary with the…

Watching a rerun of one of the many police programmes recently, a driver was “pulled over” by a police officer and “invited” to sit in the back of the police car. The officer asked the motorist for his driving licence and then details of his car insurance. The motorist, willing to cooperate, produced his licence…

Kangaroos! We were racing across the Australian bush (anywhere outside a city) on the Indian Pacific train, with eyes pinned on the landscape, hoping to catch sight of our first “skippy” or kangaroo. It didn’t take long, although they were quite difficult to spot, blending in with the surrounding countryside. Do you know the collective…