Tracing Rainbows

Two teaching colleagues are going out to Africa soon to visit their ‘twinned school’. They have decided to take some blankets as gifts – so ...

A parcel arrived at the weekend, quite out of the blue from Bob’s sister in Surrey. Such pretty wrapping, and a lovely postcard Denise w...

… Love! This afternoon I was out preaching at the URC in a nearby village. They have a regular afternoon service for the pensioners. I ...

I was interested in the Chief Rabbi’s review of Jonathan Haidt’s forthcoming book, The Righteous Mind . [Haidt is an American psychologist...

…Number Seventeen Well done, Mouse, [ Fat Dormouse Getting Thinner ] you are the winner of the 2000th-Blogpost-Giveaway! Once I have...

Here is Holman Hunt’s painting “Isabella and the Pot of Basil” It was his illustration for the poem by Keats [based on a tale in Bocacci...

Jane, of the Maple Syrup Mob, invited us to her Virtual Birthday Party last weekend. We were required to take a guest and then tell of how ...

I’m probably the last one to discover this author- if so, I apologise for telling you what you already know, but this is a quick review of...

There’s still time to enter the 2000th post Giveaway. Please comment on last week’s post [click here ]  not this one! I have put togethe...

ElizabethD asked how I kept my food budget so low. Admission – I have already gone over the £30 I allowed myself for this month – although ...

I know that love keeps no score of wrongs, and that I shouldn’t be smug when other people stumble. But yesterday’s discussion between Christ...

When I was a child, I had nine uncles and nine aunts. Now I have just two aunts [Mum’s sister, and Dad’s sister in law] and one uncle [Mum’s...

When Steph and Liz made their splendid Gingerbread House at Christmas, there was some dough left over. Steph intelligently wrapped it and pu...

I am so fond of this poem – Bob gave the TFL print to me for a wedding anniversary gift some time ago, and now it is framed and hangs at ...

Thanks to Mark's Christmas Gift – a Vue Cinema Voucher, this afternoon we went to see War Horse it’s a weepie! I am not going to spo...