Category: Monthly Musing

Like many other households with teenagers, ours has become Mission Control for GCSE revision.  Big daughter has been counting down the days until the exams start – and finish.  She has her exam timetable...

Listening to Canon June’s talk in Church a few weeks ago about Lent being an opportunity to start something new, to stop something that we don’t like about ourselves and to re-examine our faith,...

Our boiler broke down last month – on the day that the snow finally came to Winwick, of course!  An engineer came out and pronounced the burner beyond help and told us we would...

Someone told me recently that it’s a trait of human nature that we tend to disbelieve something positive about ourselves but will immediately accept the negative.  Try it for yourself – it’s true.  If...

“Two and a half days?  Not speaking at all?  You?!” My friend’s question is not as ridiculous as it seems; anyone who knows me will tell you that I generally have a lot to...

The other week I had one of those weeks where if it was going to go wrong, it went wrong.  I couldn’t wait for the week to be over, and said so today during...