In the Church of England, the Electoral Roll is our membership list; the people we can count upon as committed members of Christ Church. Each church has an electoral roll officer. Your Electoral Roll Officer at Christ Church is Irene Gassor, who can be contacted on the office email address below. The Electoral Roll is also the...
I was idly listening to some expert nutritional advice on a website. ‘The five foods to avoid in order to lose weight’ was a catchy headline. But the video message was wrong about each item it highlighted: orange juice, margarine, wholemeal bread…’ We switched off in disgust before hearing any more. The reasons did not...
Communications are getting quicker. A letter used to be a fairly good way of communicating and a next day delivery was impressive. Telegraph messages could send a message across the world. The ‘facsimile’ (fax), was so fast that a letter you’d typed could spew out in another location a few minutes later. As the technology...
(From the December Magazine) What would you give up to own a precious jewel? Just recently the world’s most precious diamond was auctioned. It was sold for an eye-watering amount: just a few dollars change from $21.5M (= £13.5M). That’s a staggering amount to be raised during a worldwide recession for a colourless stone! This ‘Archduke Joseph Diamond’ is...
Few will have missed the skydiver who broke the speed of sound in October. The Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner (43, why do we have to know people’s age?) prepared for 7 years for this memorable attempt. He jumped from 24 miles above New Mexico and reached a maximum velocity of 833.9 mph (1,342 km/h) during...