stocki surmising

2 min read 2022-06-03 01:13:25

JUSTIN HAYWARD RECEIVES AN OBE

I was delighted to read about Justin Hayward’s OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours’ list. Not before time! I have been a fan for almost 45

2 min read 2022-05-27 17:59:19

In June 1998 I was in Nashville for the wedding of friends David Dark and Sarah Masen. As I was there over the weekend I was asked to preach at

3 min read 2022-04-08 18:16:13

Janice and I are so heartbroken at the passing of our friend Melanie Clark Pullen. Melanie taught me a couple of BIG things. The first was in a

2 min read 2022-04-04 03:34:49

Will Smith punching Chris Rock at the Oscars after a joke that Rock made about Smith’s wife has been the talk of the Gossip Columns. This week he

2 min read 2022-03-26 22:26:15

I was saddened to hear of the death of Mike Riddell. Mike had a massive influence on my life, particularly in the late 90s, early 2000s. It all

2 min read 2022-01-13 05:02:47

Caitlin had just started talking. It was a Saturday morning and Janice and I were trying to steal an extra half hours kip. I was asleep when I

2 min read 2021-11-26 04:12:05

An email tonight from the British-Irish Intergovernmental Secretariat that a Christmas reception that I was invited to on Tuesday 7 December was

1 min read 2021-11-12 01:01:53

Yesterday I used the fact that I was going into hospital today for a short meditation on vulnerability. Today I have been in theatre and out and

1 min read 2021-11-10 22:26:44

(Though this is a personal experience I hope that it might be of help to others going through operations at...) I am back in hospital tomorrow

1 min read 2021-10-12 21:48:23

Much as I loved the surprise parties thrown for my 40th and 50th birthdays I had my family under strict orders that I didn't want big party for my

1 min read 2021-09-25 04:07:15

It seemed to me that it was the press getting it wrong, not for the first time. As I welcomed people at the door of the Presbyterian Church’s

2 min read 2021-02-20 04:19:56

The social media abuse of footballer James McClean is in the headlines and provoking my surmising. There are a number of surmises below the

2 min read 2021-01-20 05:00:24

My biggest problem with Donald Trump… One of the few gifts I feel that I have is that I read people well. Donald Trump frightened me from very

2 min read 2020-12-23 02:13:00

Christmas presents that I didn’t get. That I really wanted. That I still carry angst for. Though we didn’t get around to it on the actual show,

2 min read 2020-10-28 06:25:19

So many of our immediate neighbours have young children. in about 13 years the teenage parties will be loud! This year they have gotten to that age