Quick-Eyed Love
This week’s choice by George Herbert celebrates Valentine’s Day which falls this week.
Always There
This week’s choice is “Rainbows” by Kahlil Gibran.
A Fairer-Minded Chap
This week’s choice is “A Friendly Game of Football” by the Australian writer Edward ‘Ted’ Dyson and I have chosen it to mark the birthday of a friend’s son who is a sportsman, a footballer and referee. I hope he’s never had to ‘umpire’ a match like this one.
A Cargo of Diamonds
This week’s choice is “Cargoes” by John Masefield.
The Web of Years
This week’s choice is The Loom of Years, by Alfred Noyes.
Ring Out, Wild Bells
This week’s choice is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and marks the transition from the Old Year to the New.
Christmas Eve
This week’s choice is by Thomas Hardy and seems appropriate for Christmas Eve.
A Day Like Any Other
This week’s choice is by Gareth Owen and mixes the marvellous with the mundane.
The Best of Men
This week’s choice is by Edgar Albert Guest and is chosen to mark what would have been my own dad’s 85th birthday, had he lived.