Dear Friends, I received news last month that a great hero and inspiration of mine, the French Canadian, Jean Vanier had died at the age of 91. Jean was the founder of the L’Arche and Faith and Light communities for adults with learning disabilities and their assistants. Although we only met about 6 or 7 […]

Dear Friends,I always associate May Bank Holiday Weekend with the World Snooker final from Sheffield. Although I haven’t seen as much of this year’s tournament as I would have liked to, I watched the dramatic concluding frame of the semi-finals between John Higgins and Dave Gilbert. It went down to the wire and after a […]

I wonder if you have ever had a really excellent customer experience when you have visited somewhere or attended an event. We recently had a couple of such experiences when we spent some days at half term with my brother-in-law near Dungannon. Our visit coincided with Lucy’s birthday and as I walked past a café […]