May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the r
Beginnings and Endings?
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What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. And every phrase
And sen
Memory Lingers Here
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I sat in Newcastle City Centre on a Friday morning amidst the great cathedrals of that place – the shops and cafes full of worshippers and look
The Art Gallery Walsall
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I blogged about the Black Country on Saturday 6th of March. One of the best developments there is the spectacular Art Gallery built in Walsall. Here i
The Black Country
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I have lived in the Midlands as long as I have lived anywhere - and the roads, its districts and scenery are like familiar friends. I hardly need a ma
Time Out
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I remember as a student in London buying the weekly magazine Time Out to catch up on films and see where cheap theatre tickets could be bought.
Pray for Zimbabwe
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Here in Temple Balsall we know soemthing of the human cost of the present and longstanding unrest of Zimbawe as we have a number of resisdents who liv
Obama and the weight of expectation
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If you had to choose another job I wonder what that job would be? Perhaps the move from being a teacher to a builder? Out of the k
Angel of the North
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A short visit to see my parents in the North East gave me a welcome re connection with this amazing, varied place. The A1 north of the Durham servic
Alnwick Beach
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There can be fewer places of peace and space and sheer beauty than the Northumberland Coast. A short car journey north of Newcastle and the road