Phew! What a busy week it’s been! And we have a dotty phrase in our family (lifted I think from Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Houn...

Over at Ganeida’s Knots , Ganeida has posted an excellent piece on the Quaker ‘Stop’ in response to our conversations here.   She has giv...

Today, as well as the usual chores – cooking, cleaning, watering the veggies etc, I have been doing two particular things.   The main t...

I don’t believe in smacking, spanking, or whatever you like to call it.   I don’t believe it is the way to deal with a situation that has g...

I have felt disconcerted by the number of people I have heard saying, with reference to the royal wedding, that we (British people) ‘do’ th...

Further on 'Walking Into Simplicity' in a day or two - for the moment I seem to have walked so far into it I had a bit of trouble ge...

This is a picture of my father four years ago at his 80 th birthday celebration. He was a remarkable, unusual man, very intelligent, very ...

“I’ve got the Wretched Wretch a farm for his birthday.” “A farm ? Geez, mum!  He’s only two!  No wonder we haven’t got any money!” So wen...

This may prove to be an ill-considered post, possibly too much of a rant.  But something in me really loves John Wesley, and I felt very ve...

John Wesley, who inspired, founded and led the people called Methodists, preached a very practical word and lived a very practical Gospel. ...