Author: thorsten

Dear Friends, And so, the ‘second wave’ has well and truly hit. Whilst for now we may not be as badly affected as those living in the North West, the North East, & the Midlands, the number of confirmed cases

Dear Friends, I’d always hoped these weekly letters would be positive, upbeat and encouraging; but every now and again we find ourselves confronted by what is effectively a moral and spiritual ‘kick in the teeth’. Today has been such a

Dear Friends, As you can see, we are back with Comic Sans M T as my ‘font of choice’. The truth is, I never meant to change. These last two weeks I had been sharing with you as a bit

Dear Friends, In my Wednesday letter of last week, I announced my intention to no longer use ‘Comic Sans M T’ as my ‘font of choice’, but to switch to the wholly new and different ‘Perpetua’. I was amazed at

Dear Friends, Keen readers of my weekly letters etc will notice something very different about this one. I’ll give you a moment…Got it yet? No? I’ll tell you. Up until now everything I have sent out has been ‘written’ using

Dear Friends, Where would we be without Midsomer Murders? Over 100 episodes and counting. Who would have thought that the population of a select few quintessentially English villages – modelled on those found in the Chiltern Hills apparently – could

Dear Friends, And so, September breaks in upon us. Already the weather has that distinctly autumnal feel to it. The days are shortening in dramatic fashion. the leaves on the trees are beginning to turn from green to gold as

uch of the talk this past week has been to do with the development of a vaccine to combat Covid-19; especially the progress being made by scientists at Oxford University. Of course, we cannot get ahead of ourselves. It will be, at best, many months from now before the general public will have access to mass produced vaccination but nevertheless it is good to know that the efforts of those engaged in this work are beginning to bear fruit. They deserve every encouragement we can give them, not least in our prayers, that they would remain committed to the cause however many setbacks they may encounter. And we in turn have to be patient, safe in the knowledge that what can be done is being done, as effectively and efficiently as it can be…

uch of the talk this past week has been to do with the development of a vaccine to combat Covid-19; especially the progress being made by scientists at Oxford University. Of course, we cannot get ahead of ourselves. It will be, at best, many months from now before the general public will have access to mass produced vaccination but nevertheless it is good to know that the efforts of those engaged in this work are beginning to bear fruit. They deserve every encouragement we can give them, not least in our prayers, that they would remain committed to the cause however many setbacks they may encounter. And we in turn have to be patient, safe in the knowledge that what can be done is being done, as effectively and efficiently as it can be…

uch of the talk this past week has been to do with the development of a vaccine to combat Covid-19; especially the progress being made by scientists at Oxford University. Of course, we cannot get ahead of ourselves. It will be, at best, many months from now before the general public will have access to mass produced vaccination but nevertheless it is good to know that the efforts of those engaged in this work are beginning to bear fruit. They deserve every encouragement we can give them, not least in our prayers, that they would remain committed to the cause however many setbacks they may encounter. And we in turn have to be patient, safe in the knowledge that what can be done is being done, as effectively and efficiently as it can be…