Category Archives: Blog

Beauty is all around……helps us to feel it within.

Off to a funeral today, the death of an elder member of the family, someone who had a quiet, sure Christian faith. Someone for whom the following is appropriate. Death is nothing at all I have only slipped away into the … Continue reading →

Misty deserves another picture…….

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. Teresa of Avila I shall try to remember this as I drive down the lochside for an open-air service this morning. Being out in the beautiful scenery – and … Continue reading →

Have just finished reading  To Travel Hopefully by Christopher Rush. It is a sad but ultimately encouraging book. The author describes in harrowing detail his travels through the death of his wife and the subsequent year of bereavement. Eventually, he … Continue reading →

Heard the cuckoo yesterday for the first time this year. A happy sound in stark contrast to a bird of such unfortunate habits.

She will be getting clipped in a couple of weeks!

“The” Gizmo is on its way. Until then the sitting room will continue to look like a movie studio. I had expected that transferring and editing the old home videos would make an ideal winter occupation. However, it has been … Continue reading →

Apparently there is a gizmo which allows old home movie videos to be transferred from analogue to digital via the computer, and then these can be edited using movie software. We have around a dozen tapes from over the years, … Continue reading →

There has been an abundance of spring around in the last few days, especially as some damp weather has given a boost to leaves and plants. What more could you want on a walk: oyster-catchers, ducks, wood anenomes, dog violet … Continue reading →