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I am a huge fan of the show “Dad’s Army”.  I cannot begin to count how many times I have seen it, in fact, some episodes I can say the lines before the characters on the screen!  For those of you who are unfamiliar with the programme (is that possible?), one of the “nasty” characters […]

We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey teacher leave them kids alone All in all it’s just another brick in the wall All in all you’re just another brick in the wall (Roger Waters – Pink Floyd) I remember […]

Perhaps you can remember the good old days, when you visited the seaside and heard the brass band playing; Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside I do like to be beside the sea! I do like to stroll upon the Prom, Prom, Prom! Where the brass bands play:“Tiddely-om-pom-pom!” Well, if you strolled […]

Oh wondrous news, great rejoicing Radio 4 Extra is repeating a wonderful series that I first listened to years ago, and it still makes me laugh all these years later “The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy”.  For those of you who are scratching your head and thinking, “what on earth is he on about?” let […]

As somebody once quipped “nostalgia aint what it used to be”.  Well, last week I took a nostalgic trip and visited Swineshead and Boston in Lincolnshire.  I was born in Boston, I have a number of relatives who still live there.  It was lovely to walk down the streets and see how things have changed and, […]

For the past couple of weeks I have been preaching on one of my favourite books of the Old Testament; Jonah. Perhaps it’s the fisherman in me that loves the idea of a big fish, or the rebel in me that enjoys the idea of running in the opposite direction to the one being asked […]

Mud, mud glorious mud Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood so follow me follow down to the hollow and there let us wallow in glorious mud (Flanders and Swan)     What a weekend I have just experienced!!!  I did not believe you could get so much mud in one place and no, […]

As we approach the referendum (sorry, you are probably sick of hearing about it), my mind has been turning to what happens post referendum.  I am not qualified to discuss the economy (maths not my strong point), or even the political fallout but, one thing I have observed is that whenever there is a vote […]

  Not everything in the garden is lovely.  Well, certainly not in mine anyway my fingers have never been green (the photo is a stock one, not my back garden – honest)!  But, this is a truth in life too.  There are good times and there are hard times, a time and a season for […]

What a wonderful morning we had this morning!  One of the greatest privileges of being a Baptist Minister is that I get to conduct services of Believers Baptism, and that was what I was up to this morning – that’s the picture you can see above.   During the service, June (the lady being baptised) […]