At my house, when the cupboards are empty it’s a bad thing. It doesn’t take long before the children start asking when I am going to do the next food shop. When my car flashes up with the orange empty sign, it’s a bad thing. When my phone battery has 1% and as I’m fumbling […]
The Easter weekend is the most important point in history. Each year we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus. This moment in history changed the possibilities for all humanity. It gave all of us the opportunity to have the relationship with God that He has always wanted for us, and with us. To understand […]
In 1999 I stood by the Millennium wheel in London at 23:59 with my girlfriend and the masses around us; I stood, ready for the world to end. The Millennium bug was just seconds away and I was poised to watch it all come tumbling down. What happened was at 12:01am, like many others, I […]
You are not alone Humanity has searched to answer the question, is there life out there somewhere? This question throws us into the very depths of space and its mind-bending size and reach, and year after year the answer is, no. We are alone and we still haven’t found evidence of life beyond this planet. […]
It’s Remembrance time again … it really doesn’t seem that long ago that I was writing about my father’s and grandfather’s medals. Of course, it has been a year in which we have been so reminded about the horrors of war and the sacrifices made by military personnel and civilians during war and conflict. The […]
I love photography and over the years have taken many photographs, capturing all the usual suspects, family and friends, special occasions, wedding baptisms and so on. But recently I was taken up by what I thought was a lovely butterfly. After photographing it and looking up its ID I was surprised to discover what I […]
Hiraeth (Here-eyeth) is one of those words in Welsh that doesn’t have a specific equivalent translation into English. The nearest you can get is ‘Longing for one’s home’ and frankly ‘Home-sickness’ really doesn’t come up to scratch. An example I remember being told of was an aunty of mine who had married and moved to […]
In this week’s blog we are thinking about putting the welfare of others before our own. This is something that I, personally, think we are beginning to lose in wider society. Maybe we have been losing it for a long time. This has all sorts of implications, and it is not just relevant to men, […]
Men share most in the context of activity! I am more convinced of this now than I have ever been. I think this is because it just feels so awkward talking about the deeper stuff with other men in a circle, or even face to face in a one-on-one situation. But when we go out […]
‘It was a question of trust’ On the end of a bungee rope will it really take the weight or does a fate worse than that which could happen – happen! Who or what is being trusted? Is it the Bungee Jumping organisation to whom so much trust is being put in, or is it […]
