It's not mine but perhaps it is your birthday today? I don't know. I also don't know how many you've had - good ones, bad ones, sad ones, and terrific ones too. What I do know is that there is one who knows. He knows that my daughter at thirty-nine had had all the...

Every time I look at this pic I get blanketed with joy. This is about friendship deep and true. This is about sharing and laughter and also about really being there for each other. So many giggles and nonsense - and also so much being there for each other when life...

Some places help us to be still - like these, don't you think? The passage of the Norwegian Star is sufficiently slow to help us with that. She successfully unfolds Christian Sund for us and we fall silent many times. A good thing? Yes, I find it so because the...

Years ago when I was in charge of Children's Church I organized a pantomime to entertain the children at their Christmas party. We put on "Cinderalfred" and turned the story of Cinderella upside down. We had such fun and each played our parts with gusto. (I'm not sure...

Seydisfjordur in Iceland delights different people in different ways - there's Dad keeping a protective eye, there's a passerby hardly aware of such a source of delight - and then there's the little blond guy who knows just where and how to find delight! There are...

How do you sum up a holiday kick started in the Cotswolds and consolidated with a 14 day cruise to Iceland, Greenland and Norway? I think these pics of a wonderful dinner at the Ivy in Cheltenham say it well perhaps.Sumptuous? Stunning? Glorious? And a whole lot more?...

Holidays - first in the Cotswolds and then on a cruise starting in Reykevik Iceland and visiting Greenland and Norway to disembark in Oslo. This waterfall is Godafoss on Akureyri and tells a story. It is said that when Icelanders had to choose between Christianity and...

St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-wold and we take a pic of the door that inspired Tolkien for his Hobbit story. Jesus stands at the door of our hearts and knocks, as we read in the book of Revelation. What is the door like we confront Him with and how ready are we to...

In this pic we were in the historic village of Williamsburg halfway between Washington and Virginia Beach playing at being thoroughly imprisoned. In the next pic Shirley and I were in Stow-on-the-wold in the Cotswolds and she most definitely was gloriously free. Now...

Oops! I'm new at this - editing videos ... but also bucked with myself that I've managed to do it, even though very clumsily - hopefully better next time! What the video should end with is describing the story of Shirley's life as a really dynamic one that hugely...