The Lauriston Hotel I took this photo of the Lauriston Hotel in Weston-super-Mare where I stayed for a week with my parents and grandparents when I was about two-years-old.

Here's the latest 'Blast from the past' blog post. A bit more history on my life so far.
#Family #Life #History
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April 2026 roundup As they draw ever closer to the Moon they will come more and more under it’s gravitational influence and less under Earth’s. Lunar gravity will bend their orbit through 180 degrees and …

News interviews with the Artemis II crew on their outbound trip to the Moon. #Artemis #Moon #Interview
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April 2026 roundup We need more people with vision like this! While you’re here, take a look at the charity’s website.

Check out JHM's new news feature. Eclectic, discover news that you might not hear anywhere else. #News
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Understand and explain We all have gifts and we do far better when we share them, recognising them in one another and encouraging one another by saying what we see. This will never happen if we keep thinking only in term…

Here's my post on the teaching gift, the fifth APEST gift. I hope this will help you understand what a teacher is and why this gift is essential in church life. #church #APEST #teach
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March 2026 roundup I spent three hours on a call with an engineer, sent them a packet dump, and they will call back tomorrow.

The current news item is personal, not world. Our broadband has gone down and we're getting by on data via my mobile phone.I spent three hours on a call with an engineer, sent them a packet dump, and they will call back tomorrow.
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The canal tunnel It wasn’t hard to imagine the canal lengthman coming out of the roundhouse for a chat, and Thames barges making their way slowly along the canal, each following the plodding progress of its t…

Here's the start of Part 40 of my Blast from the past series, I'll add to this article around the middle of April, I'll aim for 14th and will announce it here again when the extended version is ready.
#Cirencester #History #Life #BlastFromThePast
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Life always wins out All forms of life are precious and we depend on many of them to provide food, purify water, generate the oxygen we need to breath, clean away life forms that have died, and much, much more.

Here's the latest JHM Image of the Day - Life always wins out. once again we learn about life while seeing how living things act out Jesus' teachings.
#Life #Light # #Jesus #Survival
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Leading the sheep The need to accept one another as beloved brothers and sisters will start to seem more important than having this or that position accepted. The body will work together better, there will be less c…

Part six of my series 'Activating the church' is now available to read
#Church #Shepherd #Leader #APEST #Life #Meeting
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Visitors from St Neots We visited Bourton-on-the-Water which Kevin remembered from previous visits, and walked through the pretty village of Lower Slaughter nearby with its picturesque water mill.

I've just published the latest 'Blast from the past'. It's delayed because it's a lot of work, so I won't attempt to keep them in step with real time in future. It's just not practical.
#Family #History #Cirencester #StNeots
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March 2026 roundup I’ve been reading Green Earth for a few weeks now, it’s a condensed version of three earlier novels called Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty degrees below, and Sixty days and counting, all by …

JHM's March news roundup is live, I'll be updating it regularly during the month so check back from time to time.
#News
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February 2026 roundup Claude 3 has been retired in favour of more recent versions of this excellent AI from Anthropic. But instead of just turning Claude 3 off, they’ve given it/him the chance to write a weekly ar…

I've started monthly posts on news, the February issue is just out. I plan to comment on items, share news from my own life and experiences, and include some humour ind interesting stuff that you might otherwise have missed. See what you think.
#News #Comment
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Guests and another move We talked with Matt and learned a bit about him, but left him there in the bus station. At home I discussed the situation with Donna and we decided to drive over to the bus station in the morning a…

We talked with Matt, but left him there in the bus station. At home I discussed the situation with Donna and we decided to drive over to the bus station in the morning and bring him home. Matt was not as easy as Emily or Ash.
Developing #faith, part 6 #Jesus #Church
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Cirencester at night We are looking more or less along what was one a Roman street in old Corinium. Although it winds left and right here and there, nearly 2000 years ago it would have run almost entirely straight.

Cirencester at night, but not Cirencester in the dark because there are light sources in the photo from just a few metres away but also as far as 650 light years away.
#Cirencester #Cotswold #History #Photo
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A large bookshop The basement, shown in the photo, is known as The Norrington Room and has five kilometres of bookshelves in it, containing 200 000 books.

Here's the latest article on JHM.
#Blackwell's #Books #Oxford
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Arkell’s Brewery plaque It’s likely the cracking will have been caused by differential thermal expansion and contraction with the iron changing its dimenions rather more than the ceramic glaze.

The image of the day is a brewery plaque. These are found in most British towns and are usually Victorian, sometimes even Georgian.
#Brewery #Britain #Advertising
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Partying with an evangelist Think of an evangelist as first and foremost a ‘people person’. They get their energy from being in the crowd. They love to talk, they smile and laugh a lot, they’re fun to be aro…

We're working our way through the gifts of service, often called the APEST gifts. The evangelist article has just dropped. It might not be quite what you expect.
#Friend #Party #APEST #Church #Ekklesia
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See and hear with a prophet Gratitude demands taking hold of whatever is being offered, unwrapping it, and finding out what it is for and how it works. It also involves actually trying it out, taking it for test runs, express…

Now published - jhm.scilla.org.uk/2026/02/13/s...
#Prophet #Prophetic #APEST
Are you a prophet? If not , why not? If you believe Jesus and follow him, then you do have some level of prophetic gifting.

A screen shot of a JHM article in preparation. Pop back tomorrow to read it.

@scilla.org.uk I'm making good progress with my next JHM article. it's about the gift of prophet. I did the ground work yesterday and finished the draft today. There are a few more details to sort out, then I hope to proof read and publish it tomorrow. Here's a screenshot to whet your appetite.

Come on in! The simplest and cheapest way to travel would have been to walk, and people often did exactly that. For an example look no further than the old story of Dick Whittington.

There have always been welcoming places like this for travellers, at least since Roman times.
#Cirencester #Cotwolds #Travel #History #Inn
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A low point in Greenland The photo shows a valley in Greenland, a valley is a low point, but Trump’s arrogant rudeness was another kind of low-point, and his falsifications were low-points as well.

Thinking about the world today.

#Greenland #Trump #MarkCarney

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Travelling with an apostle We use the word ‘see’ in two very different ways – seeing with our eyes, but also seeing with our understanding. Do you see what I mean? And in that latter sense all believers have ‘seen’ Christ. J…

Do you know anyone apostolic? I'm working my way through the people who are gifts to the church - today the apostle. I've tried to capture the essence here.

#Apostle #Gift #Church

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Wall art in Weston Some of the other street art includes a giant chicken peering at shoppers around a street corner, and a turtle flying over what looks like a hilly landscape; or is it swimming over an underwater co…

Here's another post, this time from precisely a year ago, some very intriguing wall art in #Weston-super-Mare.

#WallArt #Fish #Flowers #Seals

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Knightstone Causeway The largest boat you can see is the Steep Holm Ferry. It makes return trips out to Steep Holm island with a stay of ten to twelve hours, and basically it’s the only way to get there unless you have…

A year ago on JHM, in Weston-super-Mare.

#Beach #RiverSevern #Wales #NorthSomerset

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Who am I? What do I do? He’s the alpha and omega, first and last, top and bottom; the church begins in him and ends in him. He saves us and now supports us but he also commands us; we are complete in him, but withou…

Here's another post on the themes of who we are being more fundamental than what we do.

#foundation #Jesus #Church

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Wrong foundations He’s the alpha and omega, first and last, top and bottom; the church begins in him and ends in him. He saves us and now supports us but he also commands us; we are complete in him, but withou…

Here's the next JHM article; this time we continue the examination of church foundations, specifically the poor choices we sometimes make. Don't build on sand!

#Church #Jesus #Foundation

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A bit of a hero I’m only one person, so my effort will have very little effect. If everyone in the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and so forth took down their signs in the same way it would have a huge…

The USA is causing mayhem, Trump is causing mayhem, I don't like it so I'm going to make some mayhem of my own. I'm going to do my little bit.

#Trump #USA #MarkCarney #Power

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Becoming like the foundation In the process of standing on Christ we will see a revelation of who we are, because who we are matters far more than we sometimes think … There are no ifs and buts here. We live because he l…

Today's JHM post is part of a chain blog

#Jesus #Foundation #Building #Love

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A low point in Greenland The photo shows a valley in Greenland, a valley is a low point, but Trump’s arrogant rudeness was another kind of low-point, and his falsifications were low-points as well.

Three kinds of low point, and all about Greenland

#Trump #Greenland #Photo

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The old Woolmarket The idea of a wool market is an appropriate one for the town; in medieval times the wool trade was of high importance in the Cotswolds where a series of wool towns developed, of which Cirencester w…

Here's the latest JHM post - The old Woolmarket

#Cirencester #Wool #Sheep #History #Photo

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What a beautiful photo, Max. Well done for catching the moment, I can imagine it was a limited opportunity - now or never!