Monthly Archives: December 2022

There’s no secret

Posted on 13th December 2022 by Ian

‘You hard-shelled materialists were all balanced on the very edge of belief — of belief in almost anything,’ says G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown in the 1924 tale The Miracle of Moon Crescent. Chesterton seems to have possesses an extraordinary prescience … Continue reading →

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ABE

Posted on 10th December 2022 by Ian

There were celebrations in bars around Dublin this evening as Harry Kane’s penalty kick flew high over the French goal. The cheers at the final whistle were loud. This evening’s World Cup quarter=final result recalled and apocryphal story I heard … Continue reading →

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Australia

Posted on 7th December 2022 by Ian

A friend is going home to Australia for Christmas. To someone for whom Australia is a land in the imagination, it seems something from a childhood dream. Ideas of Australia had come from a jigsaw puzzle. Perhaps it had come … Continue reading →

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England’s premier railway line!

Posted on 1st December 2022 by Ian

In childhood years, we thought the railway line that passed by my grandfather’s farm at Pibsbury was the most important line in the country. As a teenager,  I remember someone from elsewhere challenging my description of the railway as “the … Continue reading →

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