One of the last public duties the late Queen Elizabeth undertook was to open the new Elizabeth Line in May 2022. A new route spanning 73 miles from Shenfield in Essex to Reading in Berkshire, this huge engineering project had cost 18.8 billion pounds. Huge boring machines had moved 7 million tonnes of earth from…

Years ago, it was my practice to go for a haircut without making an appointment, so while waiting for my turn, I would read any available literature. One of my favourites was the Reader’s Digest, concentrating on the many humorous stories and comments. One story that has stayed with me related to two elderly men…

This thought was first published in August 2021 Thought for the day on 2 wheels!(This series of Thoughts for the Day were inspired whilst taking a week’s break in Eastbourne with my friend Rev Rach Ward, a Minister in the Leeds South and West Circuit, previously a Local Preacher in the Ipswich Circuit) 3. The…

(Photo by Lourenço Pavão on Unsplash) Travel to Caithness in Scotland and, on a remote stretch of shoreline, you will find poetry by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Here, carved into the rocks, are complete poems and further extracts from more than twenty of his works – written in the original Spanish. Why? You might…

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Denise Cross www.ellel.uk “For though by this time, you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For anyone who partakes only of…

At the beginning of a New Year, we thank God for His past faithfulness and trust in him for the future – whatever that may bring. I usually choose a hymn to put above my desk as a reference point for the year. However, this year I’ve adapted a prayer to use instead. God, help…