Grandma’s Rose (Again)
have already written a couple of times about this rose, but this year it has once again exceeded my expectations. This plant simply should not be alive! It resembled a badly made (and very...
Tagged: Never Give Up
Hello to You All, and Goodbye to an Inspiration.
Welcome to my shiny new site! I’m not an expert at this web building lark, but it’s certainly easier than when I started, in 1995. Back then we all seemed to like luridly coloured...
Where There’s Life
My grandma was an amazing gardener; she could encourage anything to grow-but I must admit that my faith in her knowledge and ability was shaken by this rose. I also love gardening, and we...
What to do when life smacks you in the face with a wet fish!
There are times in your life when you feel that nothing is going right, that if there is a God, he/she is playing some sort of cruel game; laughing at you whilst sitting safe...
A Life Worth Saving?
I run a weekly Slimming World group in the Methodist Church in Copnor Road, Portsmouth (Wednesdays at 5.15 & 7.00pm). A preschool group also uses the hall during term time and we are used...
Those stupid moments
I often suffer from what I call my ‘Stupid Moments’, times when my brain simply refuses to work properly. I cannot recall names, or put faces to names, remember phone numbers, where I put...
Throw Away Your Loincloth!
I am absolutely delighted to announce that O Books will be publishing my first book; ‘Throw Away Your Loincloth!’, in 2012. The book is aimed at anyone who wants to live a spiritual life...
You can’t hurry a Murray…
I am watching Andy Murray play Rafa Nadal… As always it is a stress ridden, edge of the seat, frustrating, nervy and downright ohgodIcannotbeartowatch experience. The Tsonga match was bad enough; I did so...
On being a winner…
I have been glued to the telly tonight, watching Andy Murray in action in the third round at Wimbledon. He was playing Ljubicic (loo-be-chitch), a veteran player at 32, and someone who has certainly...
