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Letter for May 2022
I am sure like me you have days which are etched in the memory. One such day for me is Saturday 1st July 1995 when I was ordained a deacon in Salisbury Cathedral. My family had travelled down from York-shire for the service in a mini bus with a poster in the window which read…
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Letter for April 2022
Dear Friends, I am sure like me it was a joy to hear the news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori had been released from Iran after several years of captivity. It was wonderful to see photos of Nazanin holding her daughter and being reunited with her husband Richard who had fought tirelessly since her…
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Letter for December 2021
One of the things I have missed over the past couple of years has been the occasional trip to a campsite and then a walk in the local area. In the past, my son Sam and I have enjoyed the challenge of getting all the kit ready and then driving off on a camping adventure.…
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Letter for November 2021
Dear Friends, COP26 has started in Glasgow a year later than originally planned and with the stakes even higher. Just before it started, Boris Johnson said it’s the “last chance to save the planet”, which hopefully will focus the minds of the delegates to produce some hard and solid plans to help reduce the impact…
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Letter for June 2021
Dear Friends, You will have heard the saying that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’. Well, in this case it was a recent Matt cartoon in the Daily Telegraph in which a man was dressed for work in a suit and holding a brief case and upon opening his front door he is a…
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Letter for May 2021
Dear Friends, With the recent easing of lockdown restrictions, both Angela and myself were able to travel to the Lake District to visit her dad. It had been six months since we had seen him so as you would imagine it was quite an emotional visit. During the visit we had a walk down by…
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Letter for April 2021
Dear Friends, It is hard to believe that is now a full year since that very first lockdown. Who would have thought that we are still living with restrictions in our daily lives but we pray that the vaccination roll out will soon enable us to return to some sort of normality. It was interesting to…
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Letter for March 2021
Dear Friends, When we meet or phone family or friends one of the first things we ask is how they are. We can now add a further query which is ‘have you had the vaccine yet? There’s no doubt one of the things to herald and rejoice at the start of this year is the…
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Letter for February 2021
It seems to me that many people were hoping that when 2020 ended and 2021 began that things would begin to change for the better. This was reinforced by the pre-Christmas news that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine had been approved closely followed by the Oxford/AstraZeneca one. The end was in sight, or was it? Just when…
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Letter for October 2020
I wonder how many of our readers remember the closing moments of the world cup final in 1966 when Kenneth Wolstenholme who was commenting for BBC TV uttered the immortal words: “they think it is all over….we’ll it is now” as Geoff Hurst scored England’s fourth goal to beat the mighty West Germany. A few seconds later…