Hello everyone Mother’s Day this weekend.  I remember, as a child, the big production it was to make sure something good happened for my mother that day.  We took commercial promotion of Mother’s Day with a grain of salt in our family.  Nevertheless,...

Hello everyone, There was something particularly special about this Easter – not quite sure what, one of those times when something becomes ‘more than the sum of its parts’.  And that despite the very bad weather on Easter Sunday.  One of the door people...

Hello everyone, The moon last night reminded me of the Easters when we used to drive in the moonlight on a Thursday night from Gore to Riverton (south coast) for the annual Easter Camp – each year of my pre-teen and teenage years and then later as a youth leader. It...

Hello everyone, No doubt Holy Week and Easter will involve a variety of activities for the variety of people we have at St Andrew’s.  School holidays are the reality for some – both parents and their children and grandparents as holiday minders – all the best...

Hello everyone, We continue to learn from the events of 15 March. Visiting an Iraqi family the other day, I was disagreeably surprised to hear the boys of the family aged 4,7 and 9, were staying inside more often, too scared to go out.  It hit home to me again the...