Steph's Adventures

This is a story which I suspect may be of no interest to anybody else. But I write my blog as much for myself as for whoever reads it, and i...

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has been closed since 2020, first for covid, and since then for rewiring and other such things which, it t...

Last month marked 5 years since Stories of Hope and Home became a reality. In some ways, it doesn't feel anywhere near that long, but in...

It has been a good while since my last blogpost: September came and went without me writing anything here. A quick scroll back told me that ...

Several years ago, our amazing Goddaughter Lydia gave us a jar of questions as a Christmas gift . For over a year, they generated lots of re...

Just over a week ago, news broke of a luxury yacht sinking in the Mediterranean. One person was confirmed dead, six missing, all of whose bo...

On Thursday 18th July, Stories of Hope and Home took to the stage at Birmingham REP theatre with our latest performance, "Love is a Reb...

20 years (and a few days) ago, I graduated from Lancaster University and got married. It marked the end, and then the beginning of hugely si...

With my previous blogpost having been entitled "after" the tsunami, you may notice that with this one I'm referring to being b...

I am hesitant to speak too soon, but it seems the Rwanda plan, which has dominated my life in recent weeks, in terms of time, energy and hea...

Following on from my two previous posts, I knew I wanted to write something about, in the midst of all of the stuff, how we, or at least I, ...

It is perhaps somewhat ironic that just 24 hours after writing my previous post , I was catapulted into what was, even by my standards, an e...

It is hardly news to say that I have thrown myself whole heartedly into the good, the bad and the ugly of the migration sector and, specific...

A few weeks ago I did a pottery wheel taster class at a small studio in the Jewellery Quarter.  I learned quite a lot, including that using ...

At the Northern Leg reunion, back in the autumn, the theme we agreed to explore through our liturgy this year was something to do with what...

This week I finally received a refund cheque from the company who supplied the energy to the flat where I lived prior to moving here. It is ...

 Earlier this week, not for the first time, an MP said that there are "no-go areas" in Birmingham. He was, rightly, quickly condem...

I was asked recently (actually, not very recently, I started writing this ages ago, but it's Lent so perhaps now is a reasonable moment ...

As I said in this post , I have written a Christmas poem every year for many, many years. And then there was this year, when I didn't. I...