I have been reading a review of the year in the Catholic Herald which brought back many memories of Pope JP2. As we are a Catholic-Jewish fa...

After a dull, grey Christmas day we got snow this week. I love snow and we rarely get more than one or two sprinklings in a year. Hidden beh...

A friend of mine died today. I only ever "met" Barbara by email, but came to know her as a courageous, faithful woman with a deep ...

... the BBC's Doctor Who Christmas special, anticipated by us all for several months since the last series finished. We loved Christophe...

A rather random review of our Christmas ... Highlights A packed Church for the Children's Mass on Christmas Eve. Living in an almost ent...

I read with interest this blog entry about Christmas Christians . For ten years I was a Christmas Christian, from the time I refused to cont...

Yesterday I had my first obstetrician's appointment, at 14 weeks. Here in the UK most routine antenatal care is provided by community mi...

While I'm on the subject of the magi, I'll recommend one of my favourite Christmas picture books - or, more accurately, an Epiphany ...

Yesterday was the day for putting up our Christmas tree and Nativity set. For the first time Angel and Star decorated the tree by themselves...

I set this blog up on Saturday morning. Here I am on Monday morning with nothing written. Several times over the weekend I've looked at ...