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Yesterday morning I read about Pensthorpe, a local nature reserve. They published this picture and posted the following: We’re currently in negotiations with a group of ducks and ducklings who have taken up residence in our brand-new outdoor play area… Despite our best efforts, they’ve made it clear this is now their territory. For theContinue reading “Responding to Responsibility”

This morning I read about Solomon: God says, ‘Ask me for whatever you want and you shall have it.’ Solomon asks God for wisdom… Today is April 1st – All Fools Day. Last night we watched B&B Youth Theatre present Peter Pan: it was excellent. Peter Pan takes Wendy and her brothers to Never Land.Continue reading “Wisdom, Fools and Peter Pan”

Yesterday I read an article by social worker Vince Peart, headed: In social work, success often looks like “nothing happened” because a crisis was prevented. He says: ‘The paradox of our job is that the better we are at it, the less visible our work becomes… if you’re a social worker, the success you achieveContinue reading “Looks Like Nothing Happened”

Yesterday morning… Minister-Lou preached her Palm Sunday sermon on Psalm 118… Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey… The crowd shouting, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,’ is a direct quote from this Psalm. Psalm 118 ends with, ‘Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love enduresContinue reading “God is Good”

On TV last night a choir sung ‘You’re the Voice’. The song’s forty years old – written in 1986, inspired by an anti-nuclear demonstration in London. Watching it again last night ‘You’re the voice’ still seems powerful and relevant today We have the chance to turn the pages overWe can write what we want toContinue reading “You’re the Voice”

We learnt this week that the 190-mile Coast-to-Coast walk across the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors has received a £5.5m upgrade. It’s been designated England’s newest National Trail. There was a lot of emphasis on preparing and starting well at St Bees on the Irish Sea coast. We saw theContinue reading “The Importance Of The In-Between”

Yesterday Liz was telling me about her running. She trains each week with her running club; she takes part in the weekly parkrun. she’s currently helping a friend train for a marathon later in the year. For Liz, running is a social event. For the many years, running was my opportunity to get away fromContinue reading “Individuals Together”

The recent sunshine and warmer weather have encouraged me to consider spring planting. I remembered I’d been given packets of seeds for Christmas… In our garden-shed I discovered parsnip, beetroot and lettuce seeds… and a ‘growbar’… which I misread as ‘crowbar’. Closer inspection revealed that the growbar is tomato seeds ‘in a bar of fertileContinue reading “Growbars and Crowbars”

Richard held out his hand, holding something in his clenched fist: ‘I’ve got something for you.’ Puzzled, I held out my hand. He gave me my bicycle light. ‘Sorry, Malcolm,’ he said, ‘I was manoeuvring Oz’s mobility scooter, it clipped your bike and broke the light off. Things often get damaged and broken; we speakContinue reading “Damaged and Broken”

Yesterday… Reading… Captain Howard Reid, betrayed and recaptured by the Germans in Italy, in 1943, played ‘Poor Tom’s a-cold’… I didn’t recognise the phrase… Mr Google says it’s Shakespeare – King Lear. …Edgar, Gloucester’s son and heir, is cast out from his family by his half-brother Edmund’s scheming. He disguises himself as ‘Poor Tom’, aContinue reading “From Survival to Celebration”