‘You are the music While the music lasts.’ TS Eliot from Four Quartets 3; The Dry Salvages As I’ve wrapped my head around the usual glut of admin which always awaits me on return from travel, I’ve also picked up a 2026 diary. ‘A little early,’ I hear you say; but there’s so much information … More Time Ticks On…
“Mind the gap.” – Safety announcement introduced on the London underground in 1968 using the recorded voice of Peter Lodge, (sound engineer). I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time on trains in and around London this past week so I’ve been mentally working out my routes – which line stops at which station and in … More Mind the Gap
In areas of life, where values, beliefs and opinions jostle for position, each affecting our moral and/or ethical outlook and life choices, disagreements are played out on a larger, more impactful and more crucial scale. Conflict is inevitable; how we handle it, is not…
In our chaotic, dysfunctional, noisy world, we seem to be pitted against one another in increasingly distressing ways. Objective realities aside, debate, discussion and reason are becoming harder to find; formerly safe places are no longer the sanctuaries that we thought. … More See You On the Dark Side of the Moon
For almost a year, I’ve had a newspaper article on my desk… ‘Be ready for war in three years.’ … More Be Prepared!
‘Let us remember those who will not come back… let us remember the men in all the services and the women in all the service, who have laid down their lives. We have come to the end of our tribulation and they are not with us at the moment of our rejoicing.’ – King George … More D-Day: 6th June
‘Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable’ – Kenyan proverb Or, ‘Where there is unity, God commands a blessing’ – Psalm 133:3 The real reason we were in the USA earlier this month, was to attend our son’s graduation from his first year of study abroad. After seven years in the military it’s been a bit … More Around the World in Two graduations
‘Let your fear of regret be stronger than your fear of failure.’ – Ruth Soukup (American author).
I’ve been pondering… on the difference between failure and regret.
Let’s not allow life to pass us by or failure to hold us captive, regardless of what else is happening in the world. … More Failure versus Regret
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.’ – Albert Einstein
The annual Cape Town Cycle Tour took place here last weekend… … More Keep Pedalling!
‘The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt After being in the same place for almost eight weeks, it’s time to move again. A season back in beautiful Bath was blighted only by the … More On The Move Again
‘To prepare our hearts for Christmas we must cultivate the spirit of expectancy’ – Handel H Brown – pastor and author, Florida USA. I was standing by my mother in a school hall recently, singing some well-loved carols. They are by now, so familiar to me that the words are embedded in my memory banks, … More ‘The Spirit of Expectancy’
