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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
I had to make an early (for me) start today to get to a hospital in Portsmouth. People anxious about me having rather too much iron in my blood; me worrying that I was slowly turning into a giant magnet. Never having been there before I allowed an hour for the trip. Coat on, ready... Continue Reading →
I’m coming to the end (hopefully) to what has been toughest assignment of all my years as a charity consultant. For a bit of light relief I’ve offered myself to a local foodbank. It’ll be a walk in the park after my recent experiences. I notice that food banks are gearing themselves up to what’s... Continue Reading →
As I stood at the till to pay, the barber who’d come all the way from Estonia to cut my hair asked me if I was a patient. ‘Sorry’ I replied. ‘Are you a patient?’ Aware I’d put my hearing aids into a pocket and everything was a bit muffled, I looked at him helplessly.... Continue Reading →
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