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Making a splash

I’ve always found it amusing the way young children love wellies, the sun can be cracking the flags and even so, the choice of footwear for a lot of children will be their wellington boots, I can remember both my children going through the phase and my grandson, who used to refer to them as…

Green Choices

As part of my role within the URC Youth, I am the nominated “Green Apostle” for the young people. Among other things, I sit on a national committee of “Green Apostles” who meet twice a year to discuss different actions that can be taken on smaller and larger scales to reduce our impact, both as…

“Eddy Out!”

Mark 6 v 46. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray When a whitewater raft guide shouts, “Eddy out!” he doesn’t mean, “Throw someone called Edward out of the boat.” It’s a command for the people on one side to hold their paddles against the current while the others stroke. This…

Awards that count

Truck drivers have been in the news lately. Last week, one part of our businesses announced the winner of the best of the nominations in an internal scheme to award someone who has done something special. Often these events are spectacular for their lack of the spectacular, but this one was different. The driver concerned…