In various conversations recently I’ve heard people’s stories of what they have been ‘sorting out’ and ‘getting rid of’.  Perhaps the long lockdown has forced us into taking spring cleaning more seriously.  As we move towards the summer we want to be less encumbered with …stuff! It's

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‘We are in the Business of Hope’.      These words jumped out at me when I opened a recent email from the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI).      A few years ago I collected donations for the RNLI. Still in contact with this charity, I

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St James Church has set up a Fence of Sorrow and Hope in its car park. All are invited to mark the anniversary of the first Lockdown on March 23rd by tying ribbons or other tokens to the fence. Find out more in this video.

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We have a new pup at home and recently she has discovered a new favourite sleeping place, below the armchair.   In a few weeks Bella will be too big to fit under there, but along with her bed which has high walls around and sleeping

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Albert Einstein once said that we have two choices about how to live in this world.  As if there are no miracles or as if everything is a miracle.   Although Einstein was not a conventional religious person, he had seen too much of the universe

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