2021-03-01 19:12
A BBC Radio 4 programme, perhaps in 2001, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the London blitz, included an opportunity for people to telephone with their own memories.
One man, then in his… Read More
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2021-02-28 14:46
“I am sorry another year are being withdrawn from RE,” commented the teacher, “the stuff you do with them is the stuff that is close to their lives. Relationships, life and… Read More
2021-02-27 11:35
“For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.” Mark 8:33
There is a palpable sense of injustice being felt at the Government’s enforcement of the… Read More
2021-02-26 20:46
Four hundred and five years ago today, on 26th February 1616, the Church decided to suppress the truth concerning the nature of the universe. Pope Paul V instructed that the decision of the… Read More
2021-02-25 20:52
At Dillington House in Ilminster at 1410 yesterday, I received my Covid vaccination. The whole process took a matter of minutes and I did not feel the needle that gave me the Pfizer vaccine… Read More
2021-02-24 18:31
Driving towards Langport, a jeep pulling a trailer came around the corner. On the trailer, there was a vintage tractor. The tractor was clearly in need of a substantial amount of restoration… Read More
2021-02-23 19:04
Posting six hundred odd photographs here on Saturday, pictures of old friends caught the eye, among them a picture of Tony and Dave.
Tony died in 2003. Dave never ages. The memory of them th… Read More
2021-02-22 20:07
“Is religion a personality trait?” asked a Year 10 student.
“No,” I said, “traits are things internal, things intrinsic. Religion is external, extrinsic to peop… Read More
2021-02-21 19:44
There is a sense of apprehension.
School returns tomorrow after the half-term break. Perhaps, more correctly, lessons resume tomorrow after a week without them. The teaching will be done via… Read More
2021-02-20 15:08
There are 679 (or thereabouts) photographs here (they need to be sorted).
Paul Pope sent me a zip file in 2014 and I have been meaning to sort and upload them ever since. To have digitized t… Read More
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