Welcome
Thank you for visiting my website. I hope you'll have time to explore the different pages and find something to interest, amuse, encourage - and even inspire you. My goal is to communicate effectively - primarily as a writer, but also as a speaker and photographer.
On this page you'll find a Thought For The Month; elsewhere there is a gallery of photographs, some poems as well as details of my books. All this provides an opportunity for me to share with you something of what makes me tick and shapes my world view.
I'd be pleased to hear from you. Please email me if you'd like to get in touch.
Two new poems for the new year are on the Poetry Page.
A new set of my pictures, entitled, "The Power and the Glory" is now in the Photo Gallery. Take a look at some stunning sunrises, sunsets and sky images!
January Jottings
More Than Good Behaviour
Please don’t put feet on seats. Please give up this seat for someone who is pregnant, disabled or elderly. This is the Quiet Zone; please don’t use mobile phones.
Should courtesy, and consideration for other people, be taught or caught? Do you find yourself getting sucked into the, “me-me-me,” culture that pervades much of society? Let’s avoid finger-pointing and examine our own attitudes and actions.
The Bible tells us that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, “went about doing good.” He came, it says, “not to be served but to serve.” His life of courtesy, kindness, encouragement, healing, teaching… is exemplary, and we can make new year resolutions based on his attributes. But is that enough?
C S Lewis, in Mere Christianity, challenges our perception of Jesus: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher… You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
For attitude and behaviour, we may ask, “What would Jesus do?” but a more pertinent question, at the start of this new year, might be, “What will I do about Jesus?”
