I was driving home up the M11 at night and forgot about the roadworks. I’ve been caught by them a few times now. You’d think I’d learn! The diverted ways are either to the west via Cambridge or to the east past Stansted Airport…
Persevering in Prayer I was waiting for Charlotte at Heathrow. I was with many people who were keeping an eye on the wide doors through which people who have flown in, gone through passport control, and the luggage claim come. The people waiting are…
It has been an interesting week – with a combination of the usual and the unusual. When I want to wake up in the morning, I set two alarms. I have some preset alarm times – press a button and it’s set but I…
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…
