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Lessons from Falling
Yesterday… …Cycling home from church, I passed Alan cutting his hedge. Alan’s bungalow is on a corner, and he has a high hedge on two sides of his property. Growing in his hedge were several bullace trees. He picked a few and offered them to me. They looked and tasted good, like small round plums.…
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
I woke up this morning singing the old hymn, ‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’. I don’t know where it came from in; I can’t have sung it for sixty years. I looked it up. It was written by Elisha Hoffman who was born in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania in 1839. What a fellowship, what a joy divine,leaning…
The Spurtle
Our friend Helen, who was brought up in Scotland, was talking about breakfast. Inevitably the conversation included porridge… the best way to cook it and eat it… stirring it with ‘a spurtle’. Spurtle?! Apparently a spurtle is a traditional Scottish wooden stirring stick, designed to stir thick foods – like porridge – to create smooth,…
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