I recently cycled along the Ipswich Waterfront and came across several large Owl Sculptures. These are part the “The Big Hoot” which is a free fun outdoors art trail around the town of Ipswich. There are 50 Big Hoots along with several Little Hoots. Each one is designed by a local artist, either well known…
Time for truth : living free in a world of lies, hype and spin by Os Guinness Baker Books, 2000127 pages £5 ISBN 0 801 011 957 Despite the age and primary focus of this book, there is much of value in what Dr Guinness writes here. The main thrust of the book is…
I have decided over the years that I must have a warped sense of humour. We came to East Anglia in 2004 for a family holiday and stayed in Great Yarmouth and while we were out and about in the countryside, I spotted a sign like the one above at the side of the road,…
Dear friends, It’s good to be back among you following our fortnight’s break in Cornwall and Devon. We last spent a holiday in the West Country in 2013 just before moving to Ipswich and it is twenty-six years since we spent a holiday in the Bude area and I had forgotten just how beautiful this…
I’ve started to enjoy watching sport quite late in life. As a child, Dad always had sport on the TV, so I wouldn’t watch it on principle! Well, I enjoy watching some sports ……. I still think pulling my fingernails out one by one would be preferable to watching golf! However, this week watching the…
The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 31 v1. In You, O lord, I put my trust. In an article for Campus life magazine, Susan Smart describes her third, and nearly last, solo flight. She had been practicing a manoeuvre at 5,000 feet when she lost control and her Cessna 150 began spinning wildly toward…
At work, when my colleagues talk about resource, or more often than not, the lack of resource, they are often referring euphemistically to time or people. Quite why people find it necessary to say that ‘finding resource is challenging’ when they could say ‘I haven’t got time’ is interesting. Having written about holidays and renewals…
Read about the Yankho Fund Garden at Elmsett Methodist Church..
Romans 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. (KJV) In the late 1960’s, in the early days of our marriage, I successfully applied to become a trainer at our firm’s training college in London. At the same time, I was attracted to a 12-week evening course at London Bible College (then based…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Luke 7:38 and we sing, I will offer up my life.