Steph's Adventures

Back in 2009 (in my pre-blogging days!) I started a new job as a primary teacher at an international school just outside Paris. It certainly...

For me, as for many who work in academic cycles, September is synonymous with new beginnings. This, much more so than January, is when I mar...

At some point, perhaps, I'll write a post that has nothing to do with covid-19, or lockdown, or the strangeness of 2020. But not yet. Th...

OK, I admit ... parts of the last few months have been pretty tough. I know the same is true for many people who have been dealing with both...

A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Nick, the URC synod evangelist, about life at Carrs Lane during lockdown.  In church circles, I guess ...

It is seven years since we moved to Birmingham. Maybe not exactly today, but this summer marks spending seven years in a place I have come t...

And just like that, another month draws to a close.  Here is the third and final instalment of my July artistic challenge, illustrating thes...

This is the second series of pictures illustrating the "thirty words a day"  which I wrote during the month of June. I have, as I ...

As I said, I quite enjoyed June's creative project of writing thirty words every day, so when that ended I wanted to come up with someth...

When you can't find the hymn that quite says what you want, clearly the solution is to write one, no?  This is "Isaac the Beloved...

Several times in this blog's history, as various milestones in its existence have rolled past, I have considered the possibility of gett...

This is the third and final instalment of my June challenge of writing thirty words every day. So here we are, thirty vignettes: inspired by...

I lead daily prayer a lot, but it's not often I get to lead a Sunday service at the Church at Carrs Lane. When I do, it usually involves...

For the month of June I set myself the challenge of writing thirty words a day. Only thirty. Exactly thirty. Part 1 appeared here , this is ...

Once again a significant period of time has elapsed between posts on this subject. Admittedly, in the interim, there was this one I wrote o...

My creative output has been distinctly limited recently: best laid plans of writing more and painting more during lockdown have not really c...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about how, for Lent this year I had been keeping a gratitude journal. It is now the end of the Easter season ...