Journeyman

Starbucks have finally released their instant coffee in the UK. This is the stuff that’s supposed to be as good as any fresh ground coffee and means that you can enjoy a cup of Starbucks quality coffee at home, without the hassle of brewing, percolating or grinding.
I bought a small packet to try but never [...]

My newsletter is now available for download in pdf format from this page. Thanks to all of you who have been praying for Tany and myself, supporting us financially or just giving us encouragement. It’s all warmly received.
Thank you.

…has been manic.
Not really in a bad way, although, I think I have reached capacity and could do without anything new and interesting happening over the next week or so just to give me time to work through what’s already taking place.
I am in the middle of preparing for preaching on Sunday at Manor Park [...]

Last night I got an evening out with some friends from Southampton and went to see some football.
It was a pretty poor state of affairs to be honest. Wycombe’s home ground is shared with London Wasps rugby club, and you could tell by the state of the pitch. When the football hit grass it bounced [...]

I feel rough. It’s not the flu, man flu, the plague, pox or pneumonia – I simply have a cold – but, boy I feel bad.
The great thing, after almost a week of going downhill, I now feel a little better and on the mend. The bad bit, I’ve been at home for most of [...]

Eddie recorded some video of me on our trip to Burkina Faso. Opinions, scenery, pot holes and a loud shirt! What else would you expect from a trip to Africa.

I’m fortunate to have some wonderful friends who decided that Tany and I needed to go on a skiing holiday with them. So, last week I learnt how to fly down the side of a mountain with a couple of skis attached to my feet and not die.
Day one was a bit shaky, with me [...]

Very often we do an admirable job of dealing with normal. When things carry on, the same today as it was yesterday, we’re happy and can cope. Occasionally, though, circumstances combine and a situation occurs that isn’t routine.
We have a local recycling point. It’s about a mile away from home, so we store up the [...]

Our church is having a stab at working through The Purpose Driven Life. It’s not a ‘you must do this’ kind of thing, or ‘the best book ever written (after the Bible)’ but rather a theme for the start of the year. Tany and I both had the book and have tried previously to work [...]

January’s come as a bit of a shock. On Monday I was really up for getting back to work. The holiday had gone on for long enough and I was feeling really motivated and ready to get on with the challenges that the new year was going to bring.
Monday night, however, was not perfect. I [...]