Fair Days in Aberystwyth

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On Monday was the middle of the three Fairs held each November. This is the largest, the old ‘hiring fair’, when men and women stood at one side and farmers…

Sixty-Nine Years of Ages

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It’s my 69th birthday today, or as I have been telling Iola, “I have entered my 70th year today,” or even, to spread it on thick, “Next year I shall…

London and Paris January 2008

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The New Year is gaining momentum. It is February already and there have been some sweet encouragements. A woman had Alzheimer’s for ten years and I visited her and her…

The in-between time 2008

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It is the end of semester at the university and the students who drifted in last September have drifted home. I was offered no redundant goldfish as last year; the…

USA 2008

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We had to get to Birmingham airport by 4.30 a.m. Thursday morning 10th July to catch the 6 a.m. KLM flight to Amsterdam for the Atlanta connection so we left…

USA 2008 (2)

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The two days in Murray Brett’s home in Commerce, Georgia, were a delight. Saturday morning I sent off the first part of this letter to the family and congregation and…