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Just a thought…

Jill and I love going to Garden Centres; but even after many visits to places as big as The Botanical Gardens in Wales and the Eden project in Cornwall and the less ambitious but just as interesting Garden Centres such as Thetford I am still hopeless at recognising flowers – weeds I seem to have…

A precious gift

I know that there are many false messages on Facebook but there are also some very good ones. I read this message a few days ago and it really appealed to me. Someone suggested that we repurpose old soup ladles into water bowls for bees and ladybirds. They suggest that you put some pebbles into…

How lovely is your dwelling place

Psalm 84:1,10 ‘How lovely is Your dwelling place. O Lord Almighty!’……. ‘Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere.’ I was reminded of these verses this last Sunday. Firstly, at our morning service we were delighted that one of our congregation brought along her young granddaughter, as she sometimes does. I’m guessing…

Room to breathe

Just over a year ago I wrote about the end of an era as our cherry tree had to be felled because it was diseased. I was upset then but did not anticipate the unintended consequence of there being more sunlight and space for the buddleia beside and beneath it. With the shade gone what…

Blessing

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Rev Mark Williams www.christianaid.org.uk Something to read The Lord bless you and keep you. Numbers 6:24. Something to think about Way back in Genesis, the book of beginnings, God calls Abraham to leave his country and kindred and go to the land he will give…

Eye can write

Eye Can Write by Jonathan BryanPublished by Blink Publishing, 2019 A few weeks ago a good friend said to me ” Sadly Jonathan Bryan has died”. I had not heard of him but she sent me a copy of his book as a gift. I have since bought 4 copies to give to others. Some of…

A mask?

In a reading from my Bible app daily reading, a while ago, the writer quoted from a publication called Journal of Food Research that stated, “Blowing out the candles of a birthday cake multiplies the number of bacteria on the frosting (icing) by 1,400 per cent.” During COVID, there was a lot of debate as…