Jan 9, 2025 | Reflections
The most unsuitable people Every year the Sultan of Oman used to go round his small country and hear every complaint from every person, however important or unimportant they were and then declare a judgement. One can only wonder how long it would take a UK Prime...
Dec 6, 2024 | Reflections
Living among the tombs “I want to be alone” These famous words are attributed to the Swedish actress Greta Garbo. She said later in a 1955 magazine article that her actual words were, “I only want to be let alone”. Be that as it may a cache of her letters sold at...
Nov 13, 2024 | Reflections
Whose fault is is it anyway? My wife Gail and I were taking a drive in rural Suffolk recently. Progress was lovely and smooth until a tractor got in front of us. Now it’s almost the stuff of legend in our family that yours truly and slow tractors don’t get on well. As...
Oct 7, 2024 | Reflections
“Do not be anxious about anything” The above title is a quotation from the apostle Paul in one of his New Testament letters. It is a quote that always challenges me because it is all too easy for me to get anxious and often about the most silly things. A friend of my...
Sep 6, 2024 | Reflections
Hope dies last In the spring of 1968 hope and optimism were very much alive in what was then Czechoslovakia. Winds of change were blowing through the oppressive Communist state. The new leader Alexander Dubcek had implemented a programme of reform which was allowing...
Jul 4, 2024 | Reflections
The land of promise I wonder how much faith you put in promises? I guess the answer might be, “depends on who makes the promise”. In the film “Liar, Liar” Jim Carrey plays a successful lawyer for whom integrity means very little as long as he wins the case. Indeed...
