Dear All In church each week we recite the words of the Lord’s prayer and we say ‘…..your Kingdom come’…, yet, I’m not convinced that there exists one single, unitary idea of what it actually...
Dear All Someone once said of their minister, that they thought his sermons were a bit like the ‘peace of God’ because they ‘passed all understanding’. I guess some sermons do pass all understanding and...
Dear All In normal circumstances, we might expect to ‘bump’ into to folk we know while out shopping or enjoying a walk. We’d probably enjoy too good blether about nothing in particular and everything in...
Dear All I’ve just been listening to Amanda Holden on Breakfast TV speaking about her personal experiences and how much she and her family came to rely on the wonderful people who cared for them...
Dear All Have you ever bought something and then afterwards asked yourself ‘why on earth did I buy that’? I imagine that in every household kitchen cupboard, usually under the sink or thereabouts, there will...
Dear All Part of my new daily routine is to get up in the morning, usually, around 6.00 am, to begin writing my daily thoughts. It’s been, and is, an interesting and enjoyable exercise from...
Dear All This being Star Wars Day, ‘May the fourth be with you!’ Anyone having taken or are currently taking their Standard grade biology will be familiar with the lessons on the structures of animal...
Dear All If it were at all possible that a Roman soldier of some 2000 years ago could come back and visit us today in 2020 he would probably recognise many familiar things. He would...
Dear All My old primary school uniform had a maroon blazer and the badge bore two faces, one happy and the other sad. You can see this ‘badge’ around theatres if you care to look...
Dear All The familiar ‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’ were words we used to hear uttered by Magnus Magnusson, the ‘Viking Interrogator’, on Mastermind. Mastermind, the specialist TV quiz programme that could reduce grown men...