Mellish Christmas Letter 2019
Well, we have made it through 11 months of the year at least! A few more aches and pains, extra pounds around the waist, well Barry’s, and fortunately no great family dramas. Julia, at long last, had...
View ArticleWhat sort of world do we want?
The sad news of the loss of 9000 jobs at Rolls Royce came through yesterday. Including their families that will be at least 30,000 people directly affected. If you include the loss of jobs in the...
View ArticleWhat SS Joseph & Swithun Parish is doing
We, that is the pastoral team of consisting of our PP, Assistant Priest, three deacons and pastoral assistant are busy doing our best to ensure that everyone in the parish database - 650+famillies has...
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Thoughts on VE Day
My mum was inside this building which was flattened in an air raid early on in the Blitz. When they first found her body they thought that she was dead. Then they went back for a second look and...
View ArticleDominic Cummings - written before "That" Press Conference
I thought that I would try and collate my thoughts on this sorry saga and separate the facts from the fiction. Not quite sure where this will lead but here goes.Background 1. DC does enjoy playing the...
View ArticleThe Dominic Cummings Saga Continues
I am no supporter or fan of Dominic Cummings and I think he should resign or be sacked by Boris Johnson. However from various sources I believe that his son is autistic and from experience of friends...
View ArticleEasing the Lockdown - Stupid Beyond Belief
I really cannot understand the stupidity of the government with the way it is going about easing the lockdown. It is to be expected that scientists will have differing opinions as 'when' is the right...
View ArticleJudging the Past
Apart from being engulfed by the CV-19 pandemic we are now caught in the maelstrom of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and all the protests initially caused by the murder of (black) George Floyd...
View ArticleSlavery still exists
Everybody seems to be "getting their knickers in a twist" about statues of imperialists (Rhodes) and slave owners/traders. Yet there is hardly a murmur about the 21 million to 40 million (dependent on...
View ArticleThoughts on Statues
I realise that I speak from a position of white privilege but some of the BLM protestors seem to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Someone like Colston, a slave trader, has no place in...
View ArticleSpreading False Information
Maxine Peake has been censured and Rebecca Long-Bailey has lost her political position over false stories that they perpetuated over the training of US police by the Israeli Secret Service. Basically...
View ArticleStaycation
Am I the only one upset and annoyed at the change in meaning of the word "Staycation"? It used to mean not going away overnight on holiday but staying at home and doing day trips from home every day....
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Day Out
Had a good and interesting day (Wednesday), Julia and I went to see the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern. Journey there on the train was ok, not many people and 90%+ were wearing masks. We...
View ArticleWhat will the "new normal" be?
We are getting increasingly frantic panic calls from our beloved Prime Minister, Mr Johnson, that we should stop working from home and return to the office or else the world as we know it will die.The...
View ArticleA Winter's Friend
You know time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years. It seems like yesterday that I was young, just married, and embarking on my new life with my mate. Yet in a...
View ArticleConsent of the People
My daughter and son-in-law run a catering company. I have suggested that they start a cookery school and use our house as their educational establishment. I am going on the “How to open a bottle of...
View ArticleAre we there yet Mr Johnson?
I wrote the following on the 9th April this year and I wonder how much has really changed - until there is a vaccine CV-19 will still be around killing people. The major difference is that thousands...
View ArticleIs it me or Mr Johnson that is Bonkers?
Am I going totally bonkers? (please don't answer that rhetorical question as I know you will say yes, those that don't will say that I am already bonkers). But what is the government (or rather the...
View ArticleCornwall and deprivation in the UK
Purely by chance this morning I watched "Cornwall with Simon Reeve" (Thursday 26 November). If you get a chance do watch it. This episode was focussed on the job market in Cornwall; amid the many...
View ArticleThe Government and Faith
Colin Bloom has been appointed, as the Faith Engagement Adviser at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, to lead an on-line review into how best the government should engage with...
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