Not long ago a young parishioner told me that she would have her driving test soon. I asked about the date and time of the exam and – having found out those details – I announced I would stay away from any road in the city for the duration of that test. It seemed to be a good joke because…

After twenty-odd years of hard work and development, having made many mistakes along the way and spending a fortune, the time has come to leave and start an independent life. But the future is uncertain, laden with possible stalls, failures and breakdowns, each one with the potential to render the whole thing a massive failure. I’m talking about the James…

Among many things that the ongoing pandemic has changed is shopping habits. Closing down most non-essential shops during lockdown forced many previously reluctant customers to do their shopping on the internet and many of them became ‘new-born’ online shoppers. Unlike in most brick-and-mortar shops, where you pay and take the purchased goods home, those bought online have to be delivered…

It feels a bit like deja vu, a sad repetition of last Christmas, cancelled at short notice. Are we facing a return to Zoom calls, online Masses and the like? I hope not. But the recent rapid changes in the Covid landscape have brought back some of my memories of the time when it all started. A steep learning curve…