Latest Thought for the Week

When I was younger, we were told when visiting the country that we should ‘Leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but photographs.’

Our Autumn Lecture Series began on Wednesday in a packed church.

I’ve never been a great one for New Year’s resolutions, but if I was, this seems a much better time for them than January.

Soon after I arrived at St Martin’s I commented that being here had similarities to being at the Greenbelt Festival, but on an ongoing basis.

So are holidays a break from real life, a pleasant distraction until the meaningful stuff – work – recommences? As someone who works in HR, most of my professional life is based on an assumption that work is valuable and fulfilling.

It can be all too easy to be completely wrapped up in everything that is going on around us and in the world.

For many of us in central London, August is as close as we get to a collective break in work.

So I’m not quite out the door yet.

That ‘one small step for a man’ is a moving memory for me having got up in the dead of night as a small boy and been allowed to watch the drama live on a very small black and white TV in my parents’ bedroom.