I do apologise in advance for the randomness of this post. My Internet home page is set to Google and as you may know, they put pretty pictures on there of things of general interest. It's a bit like having an automatic calendar. Birthdays and anniversaries (see the...

People have very different attitudes to birthdays. Some love them. Some dread them. Some are indifferent to them. In a similar manner, people have very different attitudes to the birthday box at church, and this was very definitely demonstrated this last Sunday. We...

All our historic ramblings last week led me to thinking about legacies. We looked round so many historic buildings, which generally only became historic because somebody had the vision and determination to want to leave behind something that would make a difference to...