I beg you to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart. Learn to love the questions like locked rooms or books written in a foreign tongue.
Monday night was a bit of a letdown for watchers of the sky across the greater part of Scotland. It was billed as the night of the ‘supermoon’ – that time, once in a…
In 2014 I went to the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham with my husband to have a holiday and an opportunity to explore the lovely village of Bournville. I had always…
The Bavarian regiment in which Adolf Hitler served in world war one was first engaged by the Black Watch near the village of Langemark on the road to Ypres. The Black Watch were…
Oh what a pity, another committee has messed it up again And safeguarding measures that give me no pleasure are driving me insane. Whatever I do – in a moment or two – we’re…
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