Dear All It won’t be too much longer I expect, before places of worship will open again for restricted use, ie, private prayer and medication, I mean meditation. As you are aware, no announcements have...
Dear All Everyone likes good news. We all like to hear something that is potentially trouble-free, something that we can look forward to without worry and anxiety. We all need to hear comforting words of...
Dear All To the great relief of many, some sports have been given the ‘green light’ to resume, albeit under the tiresome phrase ‘social distancing’. It is a necessary requirement of course, and for some...
Dear All Whenever we are able to, it will be nice to plan a holiday abroad once again and look forward to it in anticipation. We can of course, look forward, but we can’t, as...
Dear All A couple of centuries ago on a country highway if a masked man appeared in front of your coach holding a musket and shouted threateningly: ”stand and deliver” you’d have been scared out...
Dear All There are many things that people dread and one of them is standing up and having to speak in front of others. It can be so much harder, especially if friends and family...
Dear All With the benefit of so many TV channels these days, we can watch just about anything we wish and at any time. With widescreen, surround sound, and high definition ‘boxes’ it makes our...
Dear All Today the church celebrates ‘Pentecost’ which has its origins in the Jewish harvest festival called the Shavuot, ‘Feast of Weeks’. The word ‘Pentecost’ is a Greek word derived from the term ‘fiftieth’ ie,...
Dear All Sit back and relax, put your feet up and empty your mind completely, this incidentally, reminds me of a workmate of years ago in the shipyards. At lunchtime, ‘dinner time ‘ in those...
Dear All There have been many social ‘experiments’ tried and tested over the years and each with varying degrees of success. Many books have been written and read and political systems and principles developed on...