Tracing Rainbows

They have just announced the death of Marguerite Patten, the great cook - at the ripe old age of 99. I have nothing but admiration for thi...

Because the wedding is there, and we are here, we have accumulated quite a lot of stuff in Dorset that needs to get to Kirby Muxloe for Satu...

Billy Connolly famously said “Never trust a man who, left alone in a room with a tea cosy …doesn’t try it on” This is not something I usual...

I love the new poster outside church this week. What a great message.  As you will see, the extension work is progressing well, and th...

You may be familiar with this picture of "Study of the Hands of an Apostle"- a pen and ink drawing by the artist Albrecht Dürer d...

Notion noun [ plural noun :  notions ] 1.     A conception of or belief about something. 2.     an impulse or desire, especially one o...

Once I’d seen Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba  Everdene, in a dress fastened with Dorset buttons, I wanted to learn to make them! When we visite...

37 is a fascinating number- it is a prime, a centred hexagonal number , and has all sorts of other weird mathematical properties. 37ºC i...

Before Bob drove off to London yesterday to see Steph and Mark, he and I went over to Wimborne, for coffee and a wander round the town mus...

It was a warm day, and he had a long way to go. He hadn't gone more than half-way when a sort of funny feeling began to creep all over...

OK, I did try – I reserved Marie Kondo’s bestseller “ The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying ” from the Dorset libraries. I was 16 th in...

Hayley Young is 28 years old - and pastor of Hayling Island Baptist Church. Recently she lost all her hair as a side effect of medication. ...

The humble sock - it features in so many of our phrases I'm 4'11½" in my socks the teacher told me to pull my socks up  and ...

At Christmas 1964, my Grandmother took me to the cinema to see Mary Poppins. I loved it! Julie Andrews singing, Dick Van Dyke’s crazy dancin...

I keep my knitting needles in this bag. It originally belonged to my mother-in-law, so it has lots of good memories. She taught me some use...