Another title I planned a while ago, and on a much happier note. I’m no expert, but I’m fond of the odd haystack. Bountiful nature and all that. Going on holiday to the Isle of Jura most summers when I was growing up, a relative there still had a smallholding, and you could see him …
Category archives: Moments
This year’s catch phrases
Having spent a week with 4 children, felt the need to capture a few of this year’s catch phrases from them. As we now see them (and their parents) about once a year, what they can say and do moves on a lot. We continue to use last year’s phrases, brush them off and bring …
Hail fellow, well met
This post is dedicated to Nico van Loenen, who died on Wednesday. Nico and his family lived two doors up from us when I was at secondary school. Our families became friends soon after we moved to Malvern. Nico and my dad would hang out together on Tuesdays, when I, my mum and Nico’s wife …
Taking the plunge
All of a sudden, quite a lot of new stuff coming up all at the same time… I’ve been on the singing team at church for quite a while – not bad as a way to be involved, and more creative than cleaning the loos. (If you’ve come up with a creative way of cleaning …
Giving it all away
What happens when you finally get the chance to shift the workload, and share it a bit better? Maybe I’ll do some new stuff. There’s plenty of communications work that I can see needs doing. But perhaps I can work out how to keep a bit more of a balance. In the past, I felt …