In an attempt to maintain my fitness I am taking weekly swimming lessons at Ormskirk Park Pool – and finding them extremely difficult. ...

“Hello, Adrian. It’s Ross Moughtin!” Huge laugh. “Come right up.” It’s September and once again I am organising the annual reunion...

“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine,” concluded physicist and long-distance cyclist, Arthur Eddington, “it is stranger...

Salut! "Whoever said money can't buy happiness," mused Golden Raspberry award-winning actress, Bo Derek "simply didn't know where to go...

I just missed my train by moments this Wednesday and so I found myself sitting in Aughton Park railway station for 14 minutes. It was...

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is very simply a masterpiece. However, it is not your standard war movie. This is no prequel for Saving...

Either it's 'Dunkirk' (which I have been thinking about ever since I saw this remarkable film last Saturday) or alternatively, New Wine...

“Church asks tourists to keep unholy racket under control.” This headline in today’s Times caught my attention – another grumpy vicar...

Today, 21st July, is my mother’s 100th birthday! At least it would have been had she not died in good heart and in Christ just five...

Some 25 years ago at this very hour, I would have been in bed in Rochdale. However, had I been awake I would have been thinking, even...

“I am a Catholic,” confessed Billy Connolly. “I have an A level in guilt.” Catholic guilt was very much the theme of the BBC1 drama...

As disembodied voices go, it was impressive! Last night I took the M6 south to Werrigton and Wetley Rocks, which as you know is six...

So today it’s SIAMS! Even as I type these words the Registered Inspector is getting into his car to arrive at our church school for...

As soon as I walked in after all those years, I knew for certain that it was God who had engineered my move to Heswall. At the time in...

“So where does that all leave us?” The Thomas Cook flight from Holguin to Manchester slams on its airbrakes just 7000 feet over our...

“You have a lovely tan!” “Yes, I’ve just come back from a week in Majorca.” It’s 1975 and while on a month placement at St Mary’s Edge...

Homeward bound, here at Ministrio Pistarini international airport, as we prepare to travel to a city still in profound shock. The...

" Here in Salta," I commented to Sheila, "everyone seems to be a character." Her immediate response: "You need to be a character to live...

“Sometimes I arrive," reflects photographer Ansel Adams, "just when God's ready to have someone click the shutter." We had only been in...

One fun-seeking tourist in Majorca was asked did she know where about in the world she was. She replied that she simply got on the plane...