Tracing Rainbows

I don't do Reality TV. I know too much about the editing process, and that what the viewer sees on the screen has been cut and trimmed...

500 years ago, Raphael painted this picture, known as "The Madonna of the Pinks". These little flowers were a a symbol of marria...

... they come with peaceful wings unfurled So runs Edward Sears' carol, "It came upon the midnight clear" - usually sung to t...

I try not to splash out on lots of Christmas kitsch. We have collected plenty of decorations in our 40 festive seasons together. But I do li...

It's all her fault! My student and I were reading this book last week.  We discovered many things that annoyed us about the book - lik...

When we were doing 'Get In The Picture' a couple of Saturday's ago, I got into conversation with a young Mum. We'd not rea...

Mary's song of praise, after the angel told her she would be the mother of the Messiah include these lines... The Lord's name...

Pantone have just announced their Colour of the Year for 2019 - called Living Coral "Living Coral embraces us with warmth and nouri...

This is the fourth year that our friends at St Martins URC Chapel in West Moors have organised a Christmas Tree Festival. The number of tree...

There's an interesting 'infographic' on the Zero Waste Website Sadly I cannot get it to print any larger, so please click on ...

Anybody looking into the back of my car this week might be surprised by the stranger white packets lurking in the footwell behind the driver...

...no, these are more at home on a Badminton Court! My turn to provide the crafts on Sunday morning. Following our Advent Angels theme, I g...

One unexpected triumph last week; we were going to our local Christmas Party for Baptist Clergy and Spouses [aka Bob, his mates and the oth...

I've been thinking about my first Advent Pause for ages. Last Sunday, an idea started to develop in my brain, during Bob's sermon....

I realise that I have not posted about my wonderful evening in London three weeks ago with Liz and Steph. So here is my report. We went to T...

For reasons too complicated to explain, Tuesday's "Day Off Together" did not begin till 6pm. But the driving rain had at least...

Sunday, November 25 saw the commencement of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. Running from the UN International Day of ...