Malcolm’s musings
Exclusion
Yesterday my friend Nigel posted a piece about ninety-year-olds having to use a smartphone to access basic rights: ‘,,,everything has become an app, a code, a portal. The very people who built this country… now find themselves illiterate in their own homes. If booking a medical appointment or paying a bill requires the help of…
Avocets
Yesterday we visited Minsmere. We enjoyed coffee and cheese scones from the café. We enjoyed walking through the woodlands, and walking beside the reedbeds, the stretches of open water. From the bird hides we saw majestic Marsh Harriers soaring high above the reedbeds… we saw speedy Hobbies swooping down to catch dragonflies… we saw Avocets…
Patience and Understanding…
Yesterday’s big local news: A rollercoaster at Pleasurewood Hills broke down, leaving twenty-seven people stranded 50ft in the air. Two-and-a-half hours later fire crews rescued them. Afterwards, a Pleasurewood Hills statement included: ‘We would like to say a huge thank you to every rider… for their patience and understanding while the situation was resolved.’ Well…
Moving the Fence
At church yesterday, Stephen told of a village priest who was required to deal with a particularly distressing suicide. He cared for the family and took the funeral service. Because of the nature of the man’s death, the burial had to be in ‘un-consecrated ground’ outside the village cemetery. That night the priest, disturbed and…
No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus
My teenage years weren’t very dramatic. There was family, school, sport, music and church. I was learning about relationships, faith and life… 1966 was a significant year… O-levels, England won the World Cup, a trip to Portugal… and going several times to hear Billy Graham at Wembley Stadium. Each time George Beverly Shea sung a…
Regular as Clockwork
When I was a child my friend Ian had an electric trainset in his loft. I used to go round to his house and we would play together. I longed to have a trainset like his. I asked for one for Christmas. At Christmas I was given a trainset – but it was clockwork. We…
Good and Bad Together
Yesterday morning I enjoyed a walk along the beach. The wind was blowing, the sea was rough. No-one was swimming, children weren’t playing, the beach-volley-ball courts were empty. The beach was pretty much deserted. Signs warned of strong currents and fast-moving tides. Passing a woman pushing an elderly lady in a wheelchair along the prom…
The Final Resolution
It’s good to see how a story ends… A boy and a girl fall in love; will they work through their differences or are their problems irreconcilable? Jerry continues to torment Tom; how will he escape this time? A woman’s been murdered; how will the detective work out who dunnit? A friend’s been to the…
Remembering, Rejoicing, Recognising…
Dolly Parton: Yesterday we learnt of Dolly Parton’s death. Remembering her story… her large family, her country home, her marriage, her rise to fame… her songs, her performances, her song-writing… Rejoicing in her achievements as a singer, and songwriter… all that was good in her character, her example, the legacy that she’s left… Recognising her…
Infusion and Diffusion
Infusion: From the Latin ‘infundere’, meaning ‘to pour into’. Diffusion: From the Latin ‘diffundere’, meaning ‘to pour in every direction’. When I was a child, I’d seen salt, sugar and soap powder dissolve in water and ‘disappear’. When water was poured over the tea-leaves they didn’t dissolve, but the water turned brown and tea-flavoured. I…
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