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Water into Wine
7.30 p.m. Friday 24th June 2022 (with interval) at Christ Church, Stone [Tickets £10]. Water into Wine is a brand new live one-man stand-up theology show about Jesus’s top three miracles. In an unscientific straw poll of people who don’t go to church on social media, James Cary discovered three miracles are a lot more famous than...
Red Screes
We were in Ambleside for a few days. For February the weather looked good, unlike the previous February when we had torrential rain, so much that even the Windermere cruises were cancelled, and items were blown about in the streets. Day one of our short holiday we once again climbed Wansfell Pike but in much...
Our Struggling High Street
Have you noticed how a lot of our shops in the High Street have, or are now closing down? Before Covid the building occupancy rate in the High Street was very high - not any more. Even the Charity Shops have commented that trade is slow. During the day, cafes and food shops are kind...
Golden Marmalade!
As a keen and prolific maker of preserves, I was intrigued many years ago to hear about the World’s Original Marmalade Awards, devised and organized by Jane Hassell–McCosh at Dalemain Mansion in Cumbria. This festival of homemade and artisan marmalade-making attracts entries from around the world and raises money for the hospice movement in the...
Trains in the Garden Saturday 13th May 2023
This year the Trains in the Garden event in aid of Jig-Saw Kids Ministries was earlier than usual to coincide with Tim and Kate Lee’s visit. Unfortunately, it also coincided with two consecutive Monday Bank Holidays and so getting fliers out to groups like the Toddler Group was done only just in time. Offers of...
Beyond my world
Magazine June 2023 Another disaster. Another appeal. Another set of pictures to pull at the heart strings. There is an ongoing need to help others in need. One statistic said that over 840 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished. Every day, 26,000 young children die due to poverty, hunger, and preventable diseases. With so many...