Behind Closed Doors
Beware of imputing to others the opinions that you believe you share with many people, thinking they will be the same. It's not so. A few days ago, I finish shopping in a supermarket in my local town, and step [...]
Eve’s Fall: Red Toes Day
Thursday 13th March, Eve slips on stone floor at home and falls. She can still walk and puts ice pack on her left foot which got twisted. Saturday 15th: she goes to Minor Injuries Unit in Weymouth. After X-rays, discovers [...]
Be a Barnabas
God-Given Talents Talents are abilities given to us by God in His wisdom. According to the Scriptures, these gifts include such ministries as faith, healing, prophecy, teaching, administration, reconciliation, compassion, and self-sacrificing service and charity for the help and encouragement [...]
The Colours of Lockdown
In many cultures rainbows are a symbol of hope. They appear sometimes as perfect arcs, often during a rainstorm, when the sun shines onto water droplets, shattering its white light into an array of brilliant colours. Everyone loves a rainbow. It produces that frisson of [...]
Painted Birds
I love owls. We live in the countryside, surrounded by fields with sheep, rabbits, mice and the occasional fox, and woods with deer, a few badgers and masses of birds which also inhabit our garden. Sometimes at dusk, we listen to owls hooting across the woods and fields, and [...]
Slog through Snow, Blog into Spring.
This time last week it snowed. Snow can be a big problem for elderly isolated people and stranded motorists but I defy anyone, when they open the curtains on the first morning after snow has fallen, not to gasp with [...]
All at Sea
My other half has decided to spend about three months this summer cruising in a small 32ft boat around the British Isles - some 2,500 miles. He has persuaded some other lunatics to join him at various points so he always [...]
Rare Road Sign
I was driving along a country road in Somerset recently and I came across this delightful road sign, which I've not seen before. Ever since reading 'The Wind in the Willows', I've felt that toads were quirky, undignified and should [...]
Teething Problems in Paradise
I have recently returned from a short holiday in 'Paradise' - or to be more accurate a tiny island in an isolated atoll in a wide ocean - or to be more precise: Fonimagoodhoo Island in Baa Atoll in the [...]
Good Riddance to January
January 2018 is memorable (or rather unmemorable) for having the longest number of sunless days and hours of any January since records began, so I'm told. It was a dark, dismal, dank month - and - to add adverbs (now [...]