With two of our five granddaughters in residence now watching an early morning showing of Peppa Pig, a somewhat rough and ready blog as...

Looking back it all seems so inevitable – but it didn’t feel like that at the time. The story of the building and commissioning of the...

This will impress you. I have successfully attained the food safety and hygiene for catering at level 2. The news broke yesterday...

Not much time this morning – I have a breakfast date with Santa as we take Kate and Tess to school. Grandad rule #1 – never be late for...

It was the vicar of Ormskirk, Chris Jones who insisted that we do not appear on stage alongside Santa. There has to be a definite...

It is a truly terrifying prospect, of drifting away, alone and defenceless, into the vastness of space, with no hope of recovery. I had...

“Let me tell you a story.” This could be an introduction to the scriptures – for that is what the Bible is, a story, with a beginning,...

One thing I learnt from my time as a young reporter at the Crosby Herald/Formby Times is that you can always track someone down. This...

It’s strange how simple events can remind you of particular people. Putting the demerara sugar on my porridge this morning reminded me of...

To have a great idea is the easy part. It’s the doing which counts. As my fellow Evertonian, Sir Terry Leahy, observed “execution is...

Tomorrow – assuming I get away from the Diocesan Synod in good time – I will be running through 10 kms of mud in the two-lap Standish...

So there I was, being driven in a taxi through the heart of the Finnish countryside in the midnight sun singing “We plough the fields and...

This desk is a mess. So before I do anything else, it needs tidying. As Mr Aspinall taught me in primary school: “A tidy desk means a...

The owner of Norton Grange hotel, opposite our vicarage in Rochdale, was planning to open a health club. He came over to win our support....

Which size of red shoes would the new Pope be wearing? A Vatican official was being interviewed on preparations for electing the new...

That God works in our lives is a fundamental. The question is how? For the truth is that as we speak, as I type this, God is at work at...

Barack Obama is in an impossible situation. It seems clear the Syrian regime has been using chemical weapons and what is more, using...

Louange et gloire à toi Dieu de Jésus-Christ! Louange et gloire à toi Source de la vie! The fact that I didn’t know what ‘louange”...

As soon as I entered the Cheque Centre shop in Burscough Street yesterday afternoon, I realized this was not the kind of place Archbishop...

So here I am once again, in the middle of a very large field in Nottinghamshire, writing this blog as the sun (rather than the usual...