How many of you or your parents have something that looks like this? It's Sophia's baby scan! How many of you or your parents have something like this? It's the little tag that was around her ankle. And how many of you or your parents have baby albums or pictures a bit like this? Most [...]
It's after 12th night, so Christmas is over, and I can start thinking about my 2024 intentions* *aka, I've been too tired to blog yet this year! Anyway, looking back on my 2023 intentions, I was more successful at some than others. In 2023, I wanted to write 52 blogs, and I wrote 61! I'm [...]
Illegal and the illicit. David Carter. Definitely not for me this one. Too much chopping and changing with very little to connect it all. I'll still read the next one, but Carter's earlier books are my favourite so far. Little Miss Wise. Rodger Hargreaves. We liked the title of this book very much, given Sophia [...]
Christmas Eve Sermon 2023. Reading: John 1.1-14 The reading we have just heard, is , I think, the most beautiful for any service on Christmas Eve evening, when it’s dark and chilly outside, maybe snowy, maybe rainy, maybe howling a gale, but always dark. And that is because of all these wonderful references to light. [...]
