Category: lifestyle

  • the parable of the pesky fly

    I am being distracted. There is a pesky little fly that is wafting around in my study and it’s rather attracted to the screen in front of me. I would be very grateful if it would leave my study and go somewhere else because it is irritating me. But the pesky little fly seems unable…

  • apologies to St Francis!

    I have been considering a song or hymn to follow my sermon on ‘patience’ (see yesterday’s blog) on Sunday morning. There were several candidates but in the end I went for ‘Blessed assurance’ which is a great old hymn. The verses are relevant to what I think I will be saying, but the chorus goes:…

  • they’re behind you…

    I’m back. ‘Normal’ service is being resumed. Sally and I had a lovely week without the children. Not that it was lovely being without Thomas and Hannah, but we were able to do what we wanted without shouts of ‘Boring!’ or ‘I don’t want to’ or ‘Can we go home now?’ We visited different places…