At two frames a second, it’s going to take months, even years! And for years I’ve been waiting for the technology to arrive at a price I could afford. And yesterday it arrived. My Reflecta film scanner allows me to digitalise our family films in both standard as well as super 8mm formats. And I have boxes of them. Not just my father’s (who started movie-making in 1961), uncles John and Harry’s collections but my very own, upto the early 1980s on my now-faithfully-departe

Fifty years ago yesterday Logos was launched and with her the launch of a remarkable ministry to the nations. Over the past five decades, this ministry has grown and the four ships – Logos, Doulos, Logos II and now Logos Hope – have allowed mission agency Operation Mobilisation to share Jesus in some 150 countries, with almost 49 million people welcomed on board, as well as many more reached out to on shore. I have stepped aboard the first three ships, each while being

Mea culpa: I have booked a holiday, even one abroad. It seemed a good idea last July. As such it was a great deal some 11 months in advance, in the Loire valley, And by booking a static on a Camping et Castels campsite, we need not come into direct contact with anyone, especially if we used the Channel tunnel. By May, Jacqui and I should have had our second jab. So assuming the French let us in, we should be okay. No doubt some rules will still be in place but we will

Like a child with a new toy, I’m excited by a Christmas present, delayed by the pandemic, which Hermes delivered only yesterday. Yes, I'm referring to my Adidas SL20’s trainers, which I will be wearing for my 8k run as soon as I send this blog. Adidas and I go back a long way, well over 50 years. You will be surprised to learn that for a few wonderful months in the late 1960’s they provided me with free shoes, a precursor of today’s ‘influencers.’ Which was just as well