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Author Robert Harris, best known for his novel Pompeii about the destruction of that city in AD79, which combined historical fact with fiction, was recently interviewed in the media about his latest book ‘The Second Sleep’ which is set in the future that looks eerily like our medieval past.

The story begins in 1468 but not the 146 […]

I was interested to note Martin had mentioned who we might choose if asked who we would invite to a dinner party. I remember doing this year’s ago shortly after Bill and I were married and dinner parties were the ‘in’ thing. I can rarely handle more than eight for dinner so I think we could choose 6 guests. I can’ […]

It has been encouraging this Spring to see how much our easing of pollution and way of living has affected the physical world around us. We’ve all noticed the cleaner air and abundance of nature. For the first time for many years, in my garden, I’ve noticed many more birds; I’ve seen a hedgehog with family playing on the grass and […]

Selecting hymns for Zoom worship is a challenge. Short of me doing solos, something I am sure, no one would appreciate, I have resorted to selecting hymns from CDs, old recordings of BBC programmes and the use of Spotify, an on-line resource. Sadly, for me, there are only about twenty hymns selected and repeated on many such discs. To tr […]

Read Joel 2:1-32           After last Sunday’s service I was told that in The Times of 27th May there was an article talking of a plague of locusts heading for Delhi having eaten its way across northern India. Reports say it is ‘darkening the skies, destroying crops and wrea […]