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The “Scottish” play

My husband and I travelled over to Sutton Hoo a few Wednesdays ago to watch the Red Rose Company perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the “Theatre in the Forest”. I was rather like a Circuit outing with a member from Felixstowe, Framlingham, and myself in the audience. (You know who you are!) It was a fantastic…

Jeremiah (The Soncino Books of the Bible)

Jeremiah (The Soncino Books of the Bible), commentary by Rabbi Dr H FreedmanSoncino Press, 1949 369 pages  available from Langdon eTraders via Amazon   £15 This commentary on the Old Testament book of Jeremiah is one of a series (14 vols in all) published, with many reprints, just after the second World War. Rabbi Dr H…

Aim for the impossible

Without any shame whatsoever I am taking the opportunity to advertise a brilliant book, North to Alaska by Trevor Lund. Over the years I have loved reading about people who have set out to do the impossible. Just over twenty years ago, Trevor set out from Ushuaia at the southernmost tip of Argentina with all…

Meekness and Majesty

The Thought for the Day is from Micah 5 v 4.He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth. Can meekness and majesty…

Time to let go

Last October I wrote about the contrast afforded by a dead tree. It was an old friend but the time has come for change; it has been cut down and the stump pulled out. It was probably becoming dangerous and was certainly in the way of farm machinery. Someone has gained a useful supply of…