I still am finding that the State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen isn’t too far from general conversation. People speak well of Her Majesty and the pageantry of the day and my experience of these conversations is that people view the occasion as…
I arrived back from Kenya last Monday but all this week I have been living as if I was still in Kenya. It is a little thing. I have written instructions to remind me but I am in a routine now and unlikely to…
On the 6th February 2022 Her Majesty began her Platinum Jubilee – the longest reign of a British monarch – and the sentiments were strongly ‘long may she reign o’er us’. It is a recognition of the strength of that sentiment that following the…
Apart from the fact that I have lived on two island nations all my life and therefore have benefited from the work of the ‘merchant navy’ – it is a vital component of the global economy – in providing the bulk of the things…
The Eastern Area Sea Cadets Summer Camp 2022 has come and gone. Held at HMS Raleigh and an adjacent base about 100 cadets had good times sailing, powerboating, adventure training, seamanship, electrical engineering, mountain biking, and 6 cadets were there to face an Advancement…
The electricians came this week and replaced the fuse boxes in the manse to comply with the changed legislation as well as pre-empt the forthcoming legislative changes next month. The electricians knew what they were doing, what to do, how to do it, and,…
I chuckled. I fell for it. I read the tweet ‘There are two rules in life: 1) Never give out all the information’ … Yes, I looked for 2). Now I wasn’t looking for advice about life! (But I do have the view that…
On Friday I received, as a member of Theos – a Christian think tank based in London – the Theos Report ‘Valuing Women: Making Women Visible’ which considered the situation of vulnerable women often with multiple and severe disadvantages and increasing lack of government…
The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham was a big ‘event spectacular’. As someone with an interest in puppetry – you might want to ask Charlotte why there was 2 metre high puppet hanging in the hallway of our first apartment…
Hello. This is an unashamed plug for Lutheran Radio UK. This is the ELCE’s internet radio at https://lutheranradio.co.uk/ Occasionally here I quote a paragraph or two of something I’ve read along the lines of “I wish I had written that” and yesterday I finished…
