I love reading. Both my parents were avid readers and they instilled in me a love of books. I learned to read at a very early age. Consequently I always have at least one book on the go at any given moment in time … often more than one? I tend to read the more […]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,200 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]

There is a story told of a very religious couple, touring the Holy Land during December, who decided that it would be a very meaningful experience for them to spend Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus. Arriving in Bethlehem they searched high and low for accommodation but nothing was available at any price. […]

I recently came across a series of unintentionally humorous statements children had written in response to questions put to them in their Religious Education lessons in school. Here are a few of them: Noah’s wife was called Joan of Ark. The Fifth Commandment is ‘Humour thy father and mother’. Lot’s wife was a pillar of […]

There is a lovely road behind our cottage. It is a back road that takes you past the old barn (where they recently filmed the latest re-make of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’), through gorgeous farmland and woodland (where you often see the local Hunt out riding, or a Pheasant Shoot taking place), along by […]

I really, really would like to be more like Jesus! The trouble is that I am perceived in the eyes of many to actually be more like John the Baptist? It is not so much to do with my appearance or diet – I am actually quite a ‘snappy dresser’ (no camel hair for me) […]

It is less than 30 days to Christmas … are you ready? We certainly are not! We have only managed to buy a few presents so far. We still have to get a lot more, and some suitable wrapping paper. We still have to buy our Christmas cards, write our annual Christmas Letter to family […]