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Recently daughter -Jo and family ‘did’ an escape room. Locked into a room for sixty minutes they had to find a way to escape. They worked together, found clues, solved puzzles, cracked codes, completed challenges and escaped… I sometimes wonder if we treat New Year’s Resolutions like an escape room. We lock ourselves in toContinue reading “The Escape Room”

I often enthuse about our Men’s Shed. Yesterday I read Riley’s account of a Canadian Men’s Shed: ‘While we’re sanding or assembling, the real stuff starts to surface stories of MS, diabetes, chronic pain, and dementia. Grief. Change. We don’t force it. It just happens because people feel safe… every man can feel useful again,Continue reading “Look Up – to the Shed, the Manger and Castle,”

Adam Outreach Project is a Lowestoft-based Christian charity that offers support and housing for those affected by addiction, mental health challenges and homelessness. On Saturday they reported: ‘Today we received a phone call about a young man—he’s only 24 years old. He had been living in a tent near some woods. When someone found him,Continue reading “Love In Action”

On Saturday a couple of inches of snow fell. Last night we had a little more. This is our back garden this morning. The snow’s covering everything – trees, shrubs, grass, flowers, weeds… It’s a big cover-up. For some the snow is beautiful; they’ve been out taking photographs. For some it’s fun; families have beenContinue reading “Truth and the Big Cover-Up”

I heard Maria Carey’s ‘Hero’ yesterday. It’s a good song to take into the New Year. There’s a heroIf you look inside your heartYou don’t have to be afraidOf what you areThere’s an answerIf you reach into your soulAnd the sorrow that you knowWill melt away… The beginning of a New Year is a timeContinue reading “Hero”

One of the stories that caught my attention this week was that of Kat Bradshaw. Kat had had a baby. She wanted to go back to the gym, but discovered that there was nowhere she could get exercise while taking care of her baby. She decided to do something about it… She’s trained as aContinue reading “Lessons from Mum-Fit”

Each year I read through Bible. In January I start Genesis; at the end of December I finish Revelation… Yesterday the universe, world, creatures, mankind, were created… Today Adam and Eve lost their innocence, relationship with God and home… Cain murdered his brother Abel… In the middle of the genealogy from Adam to Noah, IContinue reading “Walking lessons… Enoch, Ben and Sara”

Four Personal New Year Musings: Imperfection: Yesterday on TV I watched part of ‘Matilda’… Matilda sings ‘Naughty’ with the wonderful line, ‘Sometimes you have to be a little it naughty’. I’ve often wondered how such an approach to life fits in with me as a teacher or responsible citizen… friend or family member… Christian orContinue reading “New Year Musings”

U2 sung ‘I still haven’t found what I’m looking for’… Yesterday… …Walking near the River Blyth, hoping to see some wildlife, we entered a bird-hide beside a stretch of water and sat patiently. There was nothing. We hadn’t found what we were looking for. A bird hide? The birds were certainly hiding! We walked further,Continue reading “Looking in the Right Place”

It’s the end of the year. I’m aware of things that have changed this year. There have been international changes that affect millions, personal changes that affect just a few, good changes and bad changes, changes that have brought joy and changes that have brought sadness… …Musing on three constants through 2025 and will remainContinue reading “Three Constants Through 2025”