A week ago last Thursday I was in the gently rolling border area of Northamptonshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire, after a rather overcast morning the sun came out and the sight…
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” so sang Marilyn Monroe. They were stedfast, she opined, unlike men who just grow cold. Part of the wonder of most diamonds is that…
Last week, on one of my home communion visits, I was talking with someone of about my own age of how, when were children people rarely locked their front doors…
I’m not a huge fan of bees and the thought of keeping a beehive would fill me with alarm for fear of being stung. Someone once suggested I started keeping…
We sometimes say of someone that they “had a good death.” By which we mean perhaps, they’d been able to prepare. They’d seen loved ones. It was peaceful. Sometimes people…