Thoroughly enjoyed shopping, and visiting our vast array of supermarkets independent shops, and convenience stores in preparation for this column.
THE ENDING of another year is but a few hours away, with it may come feelings of sadness and melancholy at what we have lived through and been part of, but hopefully immense pride too, at what we have all achieved overcoming hurdles and adversity emerging triumphantly out onto the other side.
With hushed tones we walk reverently into December. Is it possible that in three short weeks it will be Christmas eve? Where on earth has this year gone?
I think of our town as any mother does about her family.
AS MOST people in our hospitality industry are aware now, I’ve used the last month visiting as many of our town’s businesses as I possibly could.
If we equate life with time, we will realise the ever-decreasing hours and days of our existence on this earth.
Photographs are therefore probably one of the most precious things we own. Yet in my opinion not enough significance is given to them.
There is time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, reap, cry, heal, laugh, and weep, always a time to love, yes even though times of hate, then a time to think and contemplate thoughts and actions of peace.
Welcome to the first of my monthly columns. How glorious that they start on the first Friday in May!
