Every couple of months, the window cleaner will send me a text, telling me he’s going to turn up the following day, and asking me to leave access…
Working as I do, in international development, in a global role, it means I’ve visited many nations on my work travels. About 12 years ago, one of those…
One of the hardest parts of being in an ongoing national lockdown, here in the UK, is the lack of in-person interactions with those outside our households. The…
I recently ‘stumbled upon’ an author whose life seems to encapsulate the lightthroughthecracks theme of this blog. Her name is Chrissie Chapman, and her book, ‘The Night the…
British people are living through their third national lockdown, since the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared ten months ago – and I am one of them. Despite this…
About a month before Christmas, during the daily early evening national news programme, BBC television showed some profoundly moving film footage from Burnley, a market town in North…
I have written elsewhere on this blog about the powerful worship song, which Jonathan and Melissa Helser wrote, during the battle for the life of a two-year-old American…
Earlier this year, some friends of mine were putting final preparations in place to move their family from the UK to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
It is late November, early on a Sunday morning, and I have woken to find thick fog blanketing the area where I live. We are in the midst…
This week has seen the passing of a little known anniversary. It was on 22 November 1873, when the French passenger ship, the Ville du Havre, sank in…