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Memorable Meals
What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? A wedding breakfast, a Christmas dinner, a warm Cornish pasty eaten on a cold beach as a child, Mum’s meat and potato pie? Meals stay with us, marking our lives more clearly than almost anything else, because a meal is never just food. It is memory, relationship, and… Read more
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He Called You By Name
Growing up in the 1970s, I went to school with a boy whose first name was Martin. Martin was safe, standard, and perfectly ordinary for that time and place. But one day, word got out across the playground that his middle names were Stanley Leonard. In the 1970s, that was something to be teased about!… Read more
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Joseph and His Dreamcoat
Sunday’s Old Testament reading from Genesis reminded me of the time when the Music Teacher at Treloar asked me to sing the part of the narrator in the end of year school production of ‘Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’. Noting my initial reluctance, she hastened to add that I would not have to learn… Read more
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Counting Camels
In June 1969, in Mexico City, Adriana Martínez finally married Octavio Guillén. They had been engaged for sixty-seven years, and both were eighty-two by the time the big day came! Sixty-seven years is quite a wait and of course, it’s not usually that long – for some its remarkably shorter although that too can be… Read more
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Sweet Dreams
Do things ever come to you in dreams? Do you ever discover new insights during the night, while you are asleep? The Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr often spoke about a dream he had that led to his discovery of the structure of the atom. In his dream, he saw horses racing around a track… Read more
