Those of you who know me well know that I am a ‘water’ person.  I love walking beside water (haven’t quite worked out how to walk on it yet!). I particularly enjoy walking along a

One of the all too many horrendous school shootings of recent years took place in Dunblane Primary School in Scotland on the 13th March 1996 : killing 16 children, and one of the teachers, and

‘I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown’. And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put

She watched the lone figure make his way through the scrub and low-lying shrubs that spread out below her. Her daily visits to the place where they had parted months before grew more frequent and

We often say when someone quite elderly dies that it’s the end of an era. We usually mean that something is finished, gone and never to return. What we are implying is that the recently

‘Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can, Seldom in a woman…, never in a man!!’ While some of us may not appreciate the accuracy of this statement, I suspect that it is all

As we get a taste for the ‘new normal’ during phase 2+ of the removing of restrictions, it is natural for many of us to be wary and cautious, and even more than a little

I think it is fair to assume that most of us do not consider ourselves racist; and the vast majority of us are rightly horrified at the death of George Floyd at the hands of

  She watched, her heart filling with a joy that staggered her. Her son, laughing, joking, playful, teasing as his disciples and his brothers got to know each other. There was so much laughter, and