Please enter your email below and I'll let you know when new items arrive. This year has been full of unexpected events, and it started for me with a pretty big one! After 25yrs of running my charity finance and advice business I have taken a back seat. That was March, what a different world... Continue Reading →
The Thorny Subject of Spiritual Abuse
I like my increasingly infrequent blogs to be pretty lighthearted and raise at least a smile or two. This ain’t that, so you decide whether to read on (takes under 3 minutes): Sometime ago I was invited into a charity to investigate alleged financial irregularities. I quickly established that there were serious questions to answer... Continue Reading →
On Being Kind
ON BEING KIND I love a good quote. By now the book shelves will be full of Christmas books telling us what famous men and women are supposed to have said. Aileen, my sweet robot tells me that up to 80% of the quotes attributed to Winston Churchill did not actually come from him Photo... Continue Reading →
Where the safe ways end
Some months back I ended one of my blogs with the closing stanza from a poem I bring out from time to time, usually to describe the mystery, the unchanging nature and the fierce faithfulness of the God we cling to when the night gets dark and the going rough. For many years I only... Continue Reading →
Back in the Saddle Again
I was recently drawn back into, on a purely temporary basis you understand, helping out with requests for help from charities, so not much time for me to send out my happy little homilies on barbers setting light to my ears and how to be a good listener. This is a version of a recent... Continue Reading →
How we Inherit Love and Loss, or How Amazon turned 99p into over £40
Every day Amazon sends me a short list of books that I can buy on Kindle for the princely sum of 99p. If I find a favourite author or something that looks interesting, well what’s 99p? I’ve a whole pile of such purchases, waiting for me. The latest addition is a book by Julie Samuel... Continue Reading →
On Being a Good Listener
All this talk about royalty reminded me of the time I met William and Harry some years ago. They were patrons of a charity we’d set up and they attended a reception in London laid on to raise its profile and hopefully get some money coming in. There were probably eighty of us by the... Continue Reading →
Judge Not
Most days Millie takes us to her preferred park, favoured mainly because of the squirrel population which she likes to keep on their toes. We’ve got to know the regulars. This particular morning we exchanged greetings with a local dog walker we’d got to know. A young man with 2 dogs, one off the lead... Continue Reading →
A Day in my Life
One of my grandsons is about to undergo training to become a barber. The barber I've been using is a sadist. He claims to be from Turkey, He may be just saying that of course. When I started going to him he would give me a pretty decent haircut, then he would proceed without any... Continue Reading →
My Journey Through Lent
I’ve never much bothered about Lent and the practise of giving something up hoping that somehow this small sacrifice will bring me closer to God. With the whole world caught up in so much darkness and despair right now, perhaps I need to rethink my whole approach to these 40 days. After Jesus was baptised... Continue Reading →
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