Its January. The Sunday supplements are groaning with glossy pictures of wheatgrass and spinach. Every D List Celebrity is droning on about their latest improbable and indigestible Detox…
I suspect that most people know this poem as ’twas the night before Christmas rather than by its proper title ‘A Visit From St Nicholas’…
For me one of the loveliest parts of Christmas is the Carol Service. I always look forward to the traditional candle lit one in our church…
Its been a Wizard Of Oz kind of week here with gale force winds battering our shores. Although I haven’t spotted Toto or the stripy, stocking wearing Wicked Witch of the…
Today is National Poetry Day in the UK. It is a celebration of all things poetry and events are taking place up and down the…
Saturday 13th September was Roald Dahl day. In honour of this, and because I can never think of Roald Dahl without smiling I wanted to…
Happy the Man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do…
Just under 19 years ago, on a blisteringly hot August day, in our pretty village church, surrounded by our dearest family and friends me and my sweetheart were wed. I…
