Thursday, 23 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic IX: Non-convention(al) Keswick

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Keswick without the convention, isn’t quite like Anfield or old Trafford without the fans, but there are similarities. The buzz of coming to...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VIII: So many goodbyes….

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There are many folk who are grieving these days and having to say their goodbyes. While some probably knew the time was approaching when an ...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VII: Don’t panic, there’s still plenty of books to read…

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Frank Zappa is quoted as having said “So many books, so little time”. But of course, for a while now, many of us have had considerably more ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic VI: Bigging up science - but a bit too much?

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You may not have heard of Jennifer Doudna. But then there was a time when no one had heard of Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein. And of cour...
Friday, 12 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic V: Trump and the tragedy of the closed Bible.

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You may perhaps have seen the video or the photographs. On Tuesday 2 nd June, President Trump emerged from the White House and walked with...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Life in the Pandemic IV: Where should we place our faith?

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There is a lot of faith about at the moment (something I noted previously ). Some of it is obvious, some of it less so. But it’s there. In...
Sunday, 12 April 2020

Life in the pandemic III: The ultimate act of self-isolation.

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So much that might once have seemed strange now seems normal. I used to work in an office in a building in the middle of a busy city centr...