Month: March 2026

  • “Am I enough?”: Address for International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2026

    My children had lovely first words, Mum of course, a cat noise, my younger daughter just said ‘yeah’ to everything…until she learnt the word ‘no’ of course. But my first word was more and apparently, I used this abundantly in all situations. More of everything please! I’m still like that! And I wonder if wanting…

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  • In Praise of Weeds

    I’m sure I was born technophobic, and I sometimes feel a bit of a weed not being up with the technology of the twenty first century. But then what is a weed? Let’s see what Ralph Waldo Emerson had to say in a lecture given at the time when ‘cotton’ made up a great part…

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  • Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve

    1. My theme today is “Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve”, so by way of introduction I’m going to read a short passage from the story of the first man and the first woman, Adam and Eve, as it appears in Genesis, the first book in the Bible: ‘The man named his wife Eve because…

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