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On Monday our car’s due its MOT and annual service. For many years our cars have been looked after by Andy Read. We know Andy as an excellent mechanic and family friend. Many positive Facebook reviews includes: ’The best garage I have used. Very knowledgeable mechanics who have sorted some niggling problems I have hadContinue reading “RCM – Read’s Car Maintenance”

Life’s a journey, a battle, a story… I’m musing on the Greek philosopher Plato’s 2,400 year-old allegory of the cave… Cave: A group of prisoners are chained in a cave; all they can see is a wall in front of them. Behind them there’s a fire. People and puppets pass by the fire, casting theirContinue reading “Plato’s Cave”

We do lateral flow tests regularly to ensure that we’re covid-free. A couple of days ago mine came back with two lines. I have Covid. I’m positive. I’m grateful that I’ve had my 3 vaccinations, I’m grateful that thus far I’m not desperately ill. I just received a message from a friend: ‘You’re probably feelingContinue reading “I’m Positive”

Nelson Mandella: ‘Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely daydreaming, but vision with action can change the world.’ Last night I watched ‘Rock Till We Drop’. Two bands of musicians, aged 65 and over, were selected play at the Isle of Wight festival last year …with just eight weeks toContinue reading “Vision With Action Can Change The World”

Yesterday’s local paper included a letter from David from Lowestoft: ‘I am an elderly man with a hearing disability… I rang the audiology department at James Paget Hospital and was shocked to learn that ear trumpets are no longer available from the NHS. Instead something called digital hearing aids have been introduced. Digital? I thought,Continue reading “Listening, Hearing, Interpreting, Responding…”

Walt Disney said: ‘If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.’ Inspirational speakers at school speech days used such quotes. Were my lovely Special Needs children dreaming of becoming brain surgeons? Danny yesterday quoted Jesus: ‘Ask and it will beContinue reading “Dreams, Prayers And Shovelling Gravel”

Be thou my vision… I don’t know how many times I’ve sung this… the original Irish poem written over 1500 years ago… this form of it written over 100 years ago… It’s more than an old poem.. it’s a prayer for today Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;Naught be all else toContinue reading “Be Thou My Vision”

It started with the seals. We went on a boat trip to see the seals at Blakeney Point. Two groups were lying on the beach. We were told they spend 23 hours each day lying there. That’s a long time… a long rest. We saw large flocks of Brent Geese. Thousands of them winter inContinue reading “It’s All Long”

We’ve gone away for a couple of days – a small hotel on the North Norfolk coast. Blue skies, deserted beaches, a bit of walking, watching birds we can’t identify… This morning I read about Samson – one of the strangest stories in the Bible. I was uninspired. We went to breakfast… I don’t knowContinue reading “Inspirational Breakfast”

A couple of weeks ago I was concerned; in moving my compost heap I may have made a field-mouse-family homeless… I started a new compost heap… leaves, kitchen waste, grass cuttings… A week later I looked … two happy looking mice were running around doing mousy things in the compost. I needn’t have worried. OnContinue reading “Field Mouse Lessons”