Christmas is full of the spectacular: angels in the sky praising God, wise men travelling from the East, miracles abounding. But Christmas is also full of the ordinary and the mundane: Joseph and Mary facing the logistical nightmare of a journey from Nazareth to...

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the...

This afternoon we enjoyed a very informal Christmas Celebration, held at Furlong Road Methodist Church. The church had knitted figures from the Advent Trail and was beautifully decorated: Our knitted figures were back after the Nativity Trail and there were prizes to...