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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter”
Izaak Walton
How to Confront
Sometimes I have to write difficult e-mails. Millie had me up at 5.30 am today, when she’s gotta go, she’s gotta go; she makes this abundantly clear. Climbing back into bed I decided it was time to tackle that tricky e-mail that had been keeping me awake into the small hours. So, firing up my laptop and my brain I
Listening to my Life – Learning to say No
Many years ago, I was part of a church leadership team in Essex. In the office, we had a young lady who worked hard and took care of much of the admin. What I never forgot was her tactic of how she would deal with any request from one of us to take on a task that was way more
Listening to my Life: My Anti-Mentor, the Horrible Manager
In my early years working in an office I had the misfortune to work for a manager who was everything you didn’t want him to be. He was dull, petty, spiteful; if he picked you up on a mistake, and in my case, that was all too often, he’d lecture you at length, making it clear how useless you were
What’s a Christian?
Now we’re allowed out to play we’ve been spending time catching up with offspring and their offspring in various parts of the country. Recently up in Essex with family we were introduced to a young lady, the girlfriend of one of our grandchildren. She wore shorts over fishnet tights and had a ring through her nose. Her hair was a
To Love Someone Long-term…
“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don’t recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark
What Went You Forth to Find?
In my efforts to simplify my life I’m getting rid of some hundreds of books. I can only do this reasonably successfully when Anita works alongside me, for reasons you can probably imagine. We’d filled a Gousto box, (long story for another day), and I was about to start filling a second box when I came across a small dusty
Listening to my life – flowers
When I sit down to write about things I’ve said or done, the last thing I want to do is to present myself in a favourable light. Well maybe just a bit, after all, I’m human. So first a peep at my shadow side; two peeps. We were sitting quietly, it must be 10 years ago now, in a Sunday
Prayer Hunter
One of my favourite TV series features 2 antique specialists given a couple of hundred pounds on a Monday to see who can turn the biggest profit by Friday. We join them as they travel the country hunting bargains, and auctioning them off. Sometimes they do well, digging out bargains; other times they pick losers. More fun I think than
Listening to my life: a small piece of cheese
My main Covid symptom, apart from general weakness, is a complete loss of appetite. I love cheese, but haven’t been able to face any for a couple of weeks. Today I’m lying in bed, feeling a little better, daydreaming about cheese, cheddar cheese. My mind went back some years when a small piece of cheese brought me back to life.
Autism – disability or difference
(This is a guest blog from my dear friend David Henderson on an important topic which I suspect will interest every reader – I don’t believe the 1 in 100 are affected statistic for a moment!) Autism is difficult. It’s difficult to describe, difficult to categorise, difficult to support, difficult to live with – and most of the time, difficult
Lockdown and weight gain
Apparently half of us have put on weight in the various lockdowns. That means half of my readers might welcome me gently opening up the subject. When Millie, our Pom-chi guard dog, arrived early last year the big bonus was, with all the extra walking, me losing half a stone. Until one day, on our usual route march, I looked
Thoughts on life and times in 2021
If we’re involved in running a charity or a church or anything at all we have to see everything as a start up; we have to take it all apart and put it back together again. Yesterday I joined a live service from a big church in Surrey that I’ve worked with. I don’t know the viewing figures but they