Simon Says

  Departure Cacophony of sound Frantic preparations Spontaneous decision A journey to take Upcoming departure Gifts carefully chosen Companions selected Break camp at daybreak

Beginnings Come, join us on a journey as we travel with old friends: despite the various twists and turns we know how this one ends. But, haste not to the ending; our tale's not yet begun. We'll start at a beginning and end when story done. Our tale is not quite history (nor is it make believe) There's some poetic licence yet truth you can perceive. So, for our  storytelling we travel back in time to a point in history when Rome was at her prime. It's not that ancient city on which we now converge but a town, remote and distant, on an eastern desert verge: Darkness: the blackest blackness! Fragmented sparks of light illuminating  dwellings into the deepest night. Aside the town, a rocky place and here we find, stargazing magi, watching the heavens, portents and signs appraising. A great excitement permeates the astrological air as seasoned watchmen of the night stand opened-mouth and stare. Their charts abandoned, gaze transfixed, euphoria increased. Before their eyes h...

Veterans honoured Dead remembered Nation pauses People stop True remembrance learns its lessons Abhors conflict None forgot Peace in living not just speaking Among peoples barriers fall Resolution of world problems first begins within us all SCW November 2015

 

 

  'We're very lucky!" I tell the boys, "Not many can afford a LUXURY  Platinum Caravan! (Much cheaper than abroad) "It's very spacious!" I tell the boys as they squeeze into their "room": "A luxury PLATINUM  Caravan!" (I hope it stops raining soon) "It's not for us!" I tell the boys as we sit around, plain bored. "A luxury platinum CARAVAN! " (Next year we go abroad) 14/08/2019 Simon Wright

  "Luxuries! Luxuries! We must have responsibility!" cries the MP from the comfort of his salary and lunch subsidy. "Avoid nationalisation! Let's have rationalisation for the joy of privatisation is the freedom to choose. Heat or food? Clothes or light? It's about liberation in the ongoing fight to unshackle the people and allow them to decide! Emergency dinners is fiscal suicide. We need every penny to keep our bombs primed and ready to use if we are inclined. We must honour our contracts and look after our friends We must keep in their favour (Our retirement depends on the offer of seats on a top business board Earning more money as we head to the Lords). So, let us be honest - we're in this together And the decisions ahead are a question of whether we avoid the tough actions fiscal prudence demands. Free dinners are wasteful - you must understand. And now the debate and the vote has been won, we're off for a meal Subsidy anyone?" Luxuries! Luxurie...

  As if it were a dream A distant thing to see The memory of emotions Rise up within me Not with fear-tinged feeling But gentle to the heart Giving fresh perspective Enabling a new start Simon Wright  27/11/2015

Babies don't gently arrive. They invade. And the world is never the same. They win your heart and then their rule begins. You fit around them. Your life changes. Your timetable, your priorities, your choices. No more is it just all about you. It's all about the baby. And as the baby grows so does your love and your relationship grows and grows until the time, much later in life when you find yourself totally dependent on the one who invaded your life so many years before. Have a wonderful, joyful, fantastic Christmas and a peaceful New Year - and remember, Jesus is not just for Christmas!

More photos from our day on the.beach

Before and After

Bare foot on the beach

Cool dudes after Sunday Lunch at the California Tavern

I know it's wet today, but not that wet!

Here are pictures of the boys at the Goose Green Carnival - their last before moving. They speak for themselves, so enjoy!

Here's a quote from an article by Lord Glasman on "Labour as Radical Tradition".  I wonder if anyone knows anymore about this? And I wonder what challenges it might bring to our understanding of the adjective "radical" when talking about the Salvation Army? "The London Dock strike of 1899 is a classic expression of the Labour Movement in action, built on the assumption that only organised people could resist exploitation, and the forging of an alliance between Catholic Irish and local workers, brokered by the Catholic and Methodist churches. The local Labour Representation Committees were the new institutions within which the previously unrelated forces met and within which leaders were elected, strategy discussed and actions planned. It is here that the third grandparent of the labour movement, the ‘labour aristocracy’ of skilled workers who had lost their status and small holders who had lost their land make their appearance drawing upon customary pract...