Tracing Rainbows

Today was the sponsored Ride'n'Stride for the Leicestershire Historic Churches Trust. The church buildings were open from 10am - 4p...

                        The Credit Crunch is affecting everyone, it seems! [thanks to Kathryn for this superb p...

Spent almost the entire day sorting out arrangements for the Sunday Funday. Why does everything always take longer than you expect? When I...

            Last week I was teaching the Year 5s about Kenya.   Then we heard about Steph going to Malawi in November. ...

Went out with friend Moira last night to see Mamma Mi a! [had some free  cinema tickets] It was fabulous mindless fun!! The plot is utter ru...

Amazing Grace has pointed out this new Blogger Widget. I am not sure if it is going to be of any use, but I am adding it. I suspect that m...

One of my favourite activities when on holiday abroad is to wander the food aisles of foreign supermarkets and see what there is - and then...

Someone out there is the Right Person to be our Associate Minister. I really believe that. I just wish we could find that person, the searc...

Steph works for TNS , the market research company - and they have a partnership with UNICEF . This means that throughout the year, there ...

In between all t he sewing activities yesterday, I took a break to finally make the Budweiser Bread. It did not rise as much as I had hoped,...

Yesterday was an incredibly long day! Up just after 5am [ugh!] in order to get Bob to the Bus Station in Leicester so he could get a coach t...

  Steph has now left Stoke Newington. There was SO MUCH stuff! The bad news is that she hasn't found anywhere else to live yet - s...

I had to do the Opening Devotions for a meeting last Thursday. It was the day our new Highcross shopping centre opened in Leicester, so I th...

I am supposed to be doing admin and housework, but got totally distracted by the arrival of the post [doesn't take much to distract me ...

The dining room is now full of bits of cut up tarpaulin, as I'm making the covers for Bob's PA gear. Still waiting for my nylon from...

I blogged earlier about my friend Jacquie's "Eglu" and her endeavours to emulate Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and keep chicken...

Well - we ate the chard. It had a bitter-ish sort of taste, and neither of us was that keen on the flavour. It looked very pretty on the pl...

I went with my friend Debbie to a nearby Country Market this morning. I didn't buy much - just some blackberries [because I haven...