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Category: thanks

  • thanks

    “Thank you.” These two words are seriously under-rated, especially when put together. As well as being the polite response to somebody else’s actions, there is something deeper going on when we use them alongside each other (in that order). ‘Thank you’ is a phrase that offers recognition – we have recognised what somebody else has…

  • thanks, thanks and thanks again

    Greetings bloggites. I have now started my sabbatical leave and have decided that I will continue to post bloggerel here. There are two reasons: vanity and necessity. The vanity part comes from not wanting to lose any bloggites like you from my list of followers due to inactivity. I love to see the hit ticker…

  • tick tick tick

    No, the blog title doesn’t refer to how my teachers used to mark my work at school. Today is a significant landmark in our family. It is the final formal moment in our son’s Secondary education. Other than collecting his A Level results next month he won’t be going back. Today is Speech Day, and…

  • gratitude expressed

    What a weekend! At our church we marked the closing of our Girls’ Brigade Company with a weekend in which we celebrated 74 years of ministry with a party for the existing girls, a reunion for those who have been in the Company in the past (over 100 came along, including some from the very…

  • appreciate me now and avoid the rush

    We have recently had some unexpected deaths in the music industry. Tragically Whitney Houston and Davy Jones have both died prematurely. Understandably their music has received significant airplay on the radio following their deaths by way of tribute to them. What I am still trying to get my head around is that (and this seems…

  • give them what they gave you

    Later post today than usual – sorry for those who have already visited the page looking for something new and instead found the stuff from last week. Tonight I am leading some training sessions for some of those who use their time and talents in leading groups of young people at our church. They are…