“This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.” Do you remember this chorus popular in the 1960’s? During the first lockdown, we had many days which seemed very similar, some people went to work and some had Zoom or Teams meetings but our families...
These days many people drive cars fitted with a sat-nav. When activated, a monotonous and mechanical voice directs you with comments like “In two hundred yards turn right into the High Street”. The prophet Isaiah writes in Chapter 30 verse 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear...
I expect you all know the phrases... “Every cloud has a silver lining” and... “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” and some years ago ‘Tear Fund’ had the theme for Harvest that “One man’s rubbish is another man’s harvest”. Well these are about seeing things from a changed perspective. Now during most of my...
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...