05/04/2026
For me, one remarkable aspect of the Easter story was Jesus’ sheer grit and determination in saying ‘No’ to temptation in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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09/03/2026
I find it quite incredible that God chose to use us as His instruments, His hands and feet in this world. God, after all, is all-powerful, omnipotent and He rules the whole world. How gracious is He that His plan to spread the word is through ordinary human beings who have been created by Him.
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22/02/2026
I am in the habit, on the 31st December, of making plans for the new year. My standard practice has been to take a long, slow walk, preferably alone, to plan, dream, reflect, think about some important decisions and even plot out a new picture book in my head.
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15/02/2026
Sometimes, we make plans that come to nothing: a planned family holiday has to be cancelled due to illness, we don’t manage to get into a team or we’re disappointed with our academic results or we’ve planned to participate in an event but at the last minute we’re laid low with the flu. These kind of disappointments can drag us down...
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01/02/2026
I'm sharing messages of hope with my new strategy of ‘going out into all the world’. My intention is to step into my tiny corner of the world at the tip of the African continent, to literally step into the schools and read some of the stories from my books to the learners.
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25/01/2026
For me 2026 is heralding some exciting changes in my blog content and my messaging. My stated intention of ‘sowing good seeds in the world’ is very clearly stated on this website and I would like to be more intentional about the messages, specifically the Christian ones, that I write about in my blogs.
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23/12/2025
The King of the whole world is born? How incredible! That the King who created, and who sustains our wonderful world actually came down from heaven to be born on Christmas day as a helpless baby in a manger. Has there ever been a king who has given up so much?
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09/12/2025
Whoever would have guessed that my recent foot surgery would prompt me to think about the writing process?
Have you ever propelled yourself around the house in a wheelchair, or on crutches, or on a knee scooter? If you have, you will probably identify with my hiccups, challenges and modest, but feel-good sense of achievement, when I managed to crack the required skill of knee scooting successfully around my own house.
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24/11/2025
Why would an author reveal a whole page of one of their books in a blog post? Good question! But this, you see, is not quite like any other first page of a book. Let me explain...
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