I'm in the midst of decorating and DIY again, jobs I loathe with a passion (but since I cannot afford others to do these things, they are jobs that must be done.) It never ceases to amaze me how much I can spend at DIY shops and how little I seem to have to show for...

One thing I love about reading through the Bible in one year, about the discipline of reading through each part methodically, is that it forces me to read the parts of the Bible I would otherwise be tempted to shun. All of us like some parts of the Bible more than...

Some years ago my family had a holiday near the Swiss border and spent a day at the Labyrinth Maze at Evionnaz: Apparently, this is the world's largest natural labyrinth, being over three kilometres in length and lined by 18,000 trees; it was certainly intricate and...