A few nights ago Sally and I sat down to a candlelit evening meal. However this was no romantic tryst. A failure of a mains cable left the top half of our road with no electric power for nearly twelve hours. I worried about the fire hazard from the candles, while Sally was concerned about...
The Rosetta Stone, Courtesy of https://sketchplanations.com/the-rosetta-stone Let me pose a question. What might connect ‘The Lead Shot Tower’ in Chester (which is 168 feet tall and now a listed monument) at a factory where I worked until 1982 with ‘The Rosetta Stone’? Well, in 1799 the Shot Tower was built by the Walker family to...
Thank you to everyone who helped to make the Christingle Service so successful. We made 35 oranges into Christingles, children remembering what the symbols represent. There were a lot of adults and children enjoying the crafts, it was lovely to see so many old faces. Then into church for the service, Peter gave a talk...
This latest book by John Pritchard (who was Bishop of Oxford from 2007 to 2014) was published last year. As the title suggest there are twenty sections each exploring a question Jesus asked. The stand-alone sections are in two halves. The first part imagines the scene from the point of view someone who actually heard...
Close to our house is a tiny play area, just a few swings but a great place for the local children. I remember the time when some stolen jewelry was found. What excitement for the children! They felt like the Famous Five but for the most part it has just been a nearby place for...