The Nation’s Comfort Blanket
For well over a hundred years, radio has played an important part in international, national and private lives journaling every part of our history. From a personal point of view …
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Our current situation with Covid -19 raises many fears and anxieties about our future and that for our friends and families. We are concerned about the impact of the virus …
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Rather than the statutory one hour’s walk I decided to work in the garden instead on this particular day. It was chilly and overcast, but somewhere in the ambience of …
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We are living in strange times. I feel as if my life is suddenly discombobulated, my normal rituals and patterns of living are no more. Life is stripped back to …
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As I take my exercise walk around the almost deserted streets of Haddington I cannot help but notice the pictures of rainbows, often drawn by children, and put up in …
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It is some years now since we cleared my mother’s house, this was necessitated by her entry to a nursing home due to her deteriorating health. The process produced lots …
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I am writing as the Coordinator of the Community Chaplaincy Listening Service in NHS Fife. This is a national programme run across all health boards in Scotland delivered by Spiritual …
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