Hi folks, hope you are doing ok? This week we will be meeting at Platform 2 in Tynemouth, I hope that you can make it. This week’s blog comes from my experiences of this last week and my reading around it. I came across a quote from Ordinary Human Failings by novelist Megan Nolan, before we get to the quote, it opens …
What are we holding on to? What are we fighting for?
Hi folks, I trust you are doing ok and that you have had a good week whatever you have been doing. This week we are meeting at the Quarry Pub at 7.30. I hope that you can join us. It has been a strange old week, adjusting to darker nights has really affected me. I think generally the grimmer the …
Call not for peace in the Holy Land, call for justice so that peace may root itself deeply and flourish.
Hi All, This week we will be meeting in the Enigma Tap at 7:30pm – looking forward to seeing those of you who can join us there. This weeks blog is a guest blog from David Hardman. The following is a little introduction to who he is and what he does. The Methodist Liaison Office & Revd David Hardman The …
Key Moments in Israel Palestine Conflict
Key Moments in Israel Palestine Conflict1 1917 a letter, known as the Balfour Declaration, regarded as one of the most contested documents in the modern history of the Middle East, commits the British government to “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. 1947 the UN votes for Palestine to be split into separate Jewish and …
A question of death… (kind of)!
Hi folks I trust you are all doing ok, well i’m finally surfacing after a wonderful and weird few weeks! Back from an incredible holiday in Rhodes, we were very refreshed and ready to celebrate 25 years of married life, we had two fantastic parties with people we love and care for massively. We then both came down with Covid, …
A Question of Encouragement in Faith
Hi All, hope you have all had a good week. We will be meeting together at The Quarry at 7:30pm if you want to join us in conversation. We have tried to meet in the bay window just around the corner from the main entrance (turn left at the bar). See you then. The world is full of worry, stress …
A Question of Creativity
We are looking at creativity this week and we will be meeting at the Enigma Tap at 7:30pm and everyone is welcome to come and join the conversation. Are you creative? If so, why? If not, why not? Take a moment to think and write down what you think. If you asked most people what creativity is, they’d answer making …
A Question of Thanksgiving
If you are joining us tonight then we will be at The Quarry at 7:30pm tonight. I went to an awards ceremony last night. I had been nominated along with some others for an award as part of the Northumberland FA’s Grassroots football awards. I sat in a room with a 100 or so people and 22 awards were handed …
A question of cloisters!
Hi everyone, this week we are meeting in the Enigma Tap at 7.30. Hope to see yo there. A few months ago, I had a chat with one of our BCFX family who’d had a really hard week. It got me thinking that a community like us has its benefits and downsides. And one of those downsides is that we …
Sluice Sluice Wander – CHANGE OF PLAN!
Change of plan tonight… now meeting at 7.30 in THE Quarry Pub – The weather has meant we need to postpone that walk! Hi folks, for our first week back after the summer break we are meeting at the slightly earlier time of 7.00pm for a walk near Seaton Sluice, meeting at the Kings Arms pub, we should be walking …