Saint Stephen’s Anglican Church

Let’s face it! If there’s a human activity that people genuinely dread it is moving house. Moving from one city neighborhood to another is a pain in the neck, but by no means as bad as moving from one part of the country to another.

With a local move, it is possible to keep things . . . → Read More: Downsizing one’s home: The ultimate nightmare

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort,” according James Herriot, probably the world’s most famous vet and the author the animals classic, All Creatures Great and Small. And he is right on the money if Charlotte’s cats are anything to go by.

Charlotte likes dogs well enough, but cats are by far her favorites. She is very . . . → Read More: A feline cynic who exploits his coterie of admirers

This year we will be breaking with a tradition of almost 3o years and holding our Annual Cookie Walk on the second Saturday in December rather than the first. We are shifting the sale to Saturday, December 14th to make it easier for our customers to save some their cookies to eat on the day . . . → Read More: Jack Kohler: The man who named the Cookie Walk

Cooking, I must confess, is really not my bag. But since Charlotte was obliged to abandon the kitchen some four years ago, I have improved 100 percent. In all honesty, it has not been such a praiseworthy achievement as I started out from a very low threshold.

The sad fact of the matter is that . . . → Read More: Confession from the kitchen: man can’t live by snails alone

As a child, I was fascinated by maps. In fact, the book that inspired me to learn to read was an enormous old atlas that belonged to my grandfather. Even so, reading was a bitter sweet experience for it led to the discovery that, far from being the largest country in the world, England was . . . → Read More: Things to be learned from a town’s name