Christmas Day – 25 December 2011
Christmas Day for me has remained relatively unchanged since I was born, though one more obvious difference between the Christmases of old and those of more recent years is our greater reluctance to wake...
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Christmas Lights 2011: Assembly Begins – 4 December 2011
Scroll down or click here for my video. With Christmas now just three weeks away, Dad started work on his annual indoor illuminations a few days ago. If you’ve never seen them, you won’t...
Furze Platt Scouts at 100 – 28 September 2011
In 2007, Scouting celebrated its hundredth birthday, and my Scout Group (Furze Platt, Maidenhead) celebrated thirty years of its Scout headquarters on Cookham Road. Tonight, at St Peter’s (a church with which Furze Platt...
Photo of the Week – 4 September 2011
This Week’s Photo How could this week’s Photo of the Week be anything other than something from my parents’ silver wedding anniversary party?! Held earlier today (Sunday, 4 September), it allowed the whole family...
Mum and Dad’s Silver Wedding Anniversary Party – 4 September 2011
Although their silver wedding anniversary was really in July, the summer holidays forced Mum and Dad’s party to be held today. Apart from the meal after Granddad’s funeral, this was the first time that...
Jamboree 2011: The Diary, In Full – 25 August 2011
At last, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the diary of my Jamboree experience. Like all good things, it’s been pretty delayed in its release, but all 12,318 words are now attached – with...
Afternoon at Cliveden – 21 August 2011
At Burdett Towers, we’re often unable to spontaneously head out for afternoons together, due to the nature of having five busy diaries. However, this afternoon, Harriet suggested we made hay of the weather and...
St Luke’s: Parish Outing to Littlehampton – 9 July 2011
The first time I visited Littlehampton was a Saturday in 2005, on St Luke’s annual parish outing that year. The parish outing gives people in our church community (who perhaps don’t go on a...
