Our house has lots of clocks, I love the way that they tick and chime, each having their own unique sound.  however often the time is different depending on the room, or the day of the week, and it adds a lack of certainty around the time.  However, not everyone appreciates the clocks chiming, especially…

I was only about thirteen when I first came across a bigoted, racist attitude. No doubt I had met such a person before but in my youthful shyness I had not noticed but then this lad at school came over my horizon. Looking back I realise that he was being fed lines by his father…

A water bearer had two large pots, each hung on opposite ends of a pole which he carried across his neck.  One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full pot of water at the end of the long walk from the stream…

The Thought for the Day is from Luke 18 v 13.“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ Charles Haddon Spurgeon used to tell the story of a duke who boarded a galley ship and…