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...
Traidcraft plc went into administration in January , after struggling for several years. This was the company which supplied our fair-trade goods. It began trading in1979 & was one of the pioneers of justice in trade. It supported the fairtrade charity, Traidcraft Exchange since it’s set up in 1986. The charity changed its name to...
March 2023 Magazine Jesus’ life has spawned many books! It is in John’s Gospel that the writer concludes: ‘Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written’ (John 21v25). We live...
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...
