We had two more birthdays to celebrate last night (plus an interloper who is a little bit addicted to the birthday box...)

I have always loved writing and find it easy to put pen to paper. When I was still at school, one of the hardest tasks I had to learn was called 'precis', learning how to summarise longer passages of writing in relatively few words. I struggled to do this, finding...

Yan's sermon tonight, when talking about the Parable of the Sower, reminded me of a poem I wrote 'about the soil.' Gardeners’ Question Time gathers experts and amateurs, Asking questions about growth. It’s all about the soil, we’re told. Centuries before, a man told a...