My annual battle with ground elder has now resumed. It’s not that ground elder is in any way harmful or even ugly: it just takes over. ...

Slow start this morning. Still recovering from Ed Balls Day. It didn't help with 28 April being on a Thursday this year but this didn't...

This blog comes to you from Barcelona of all places, a city I have been visiting off and on since a teenager. In many ways it is very...

“Ross, you don’t realise how significant your card has been!” Yesterday Jacqui and I travelled the nine miles over the moss to Formby,...

“Is anyone here from Liverpool?” My daughter was having breakfast at a residential conference in the Home Counties when suddenly this...

“I’m a liar. Born to lying, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practiced in it as a novelist.” So...

Of course, the cross had to go – even at great expense to the college. Just beyond the Rochdale canal nestled De La Salle college in...

This Wednesday night, along with son-in-law Andrew, I managed to be thrown out of the Tower of London and then locked back in. All I can...

So Archbishop Justin makes the lead on this morning’s Radio 4 news. Significant. What is worrying however, is that he also makes the...

This time yesterday I decided to forego my hotel breakfast. Heroic. The reason? So Jacqui and I could attend a prayer meeting at the...

Seyðisfjörður. A place I long to visit, in a land of chunky knit jumpers, heavy-duty snow shovels and unpronounceable Christian names. ...

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night,’ reflected William Blake. Clearly the author of the...

Both hugely important but in very different ways. I refer to the two significant items which dominate this morning’s news: the...

Alors, the days of the circumflex are numbered! I picked up this gem from this morning’s Guardian which informs us that for some...

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peacein 20 minutes” quipped Woody Allen. “It involves Russia.” So hats off to...

Some more disturbing headlines this morning, First, another major weather event, as the US north east seaboard awaits snowmageddon....

It is Friday today, isn’t it? I ask this because here in Tenerife each day is the same. I can see us missing the flight home through...

It is the year 2052. Works of literature are banished and the only way to save them is to learn them by heart. So I did. That is the...

Do I trust God with a blank cheque on my life? That is essentially the challenge of the Wesley Covenant Prayer used by many British...

Merry Christmas, folks! It may be Christmas Day but it is still a Friday, which means my compulsion to blog. (I should seek counselling...