Category: The Garden

  • We have all had moments where life slips a bit. Where things do not go to plan. Sometimes it is visible. Sometimes it is entirely private. It might be stress, or loss, or regret, or loneliness, or simply the quiet feeling that you are not quite where you hoped you would be by now. I…

    Thought for the Day: Being Caught

  • Cards

    When we moved house, I had to learn a new oven. New dials. New symbols. Even the clock needed setting before anything else would work. I did what most people would do: dived straight in. Pressed buttons, experimented, assumed I could figure it out. How hard can an oven be? Harder than I thought, as…

    Thought for the Day: Gratitude

  • Soldering

    Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. — Philippians 2:3–4 We were selling our house in Newport. The boiler was fifteen years old and starting to make its objections known,…

    The Boiler Story

  • Sunset and Sea

    I did not grow up in a Christian home…. but ended up meeting my savior.

    My Testimony