It’s been a lovely long weekend just gone as Rachel and I both had Friday and Monday off work to attend a conference and celebrate our two year wedding anniverary.
We borrowed Rachel’s parents caravan and went to a campsite just outside of Lincoln, about 7 miles from where the conference was taking place. Having got […]

These last few days we got to spend an extended weekend with our good friends Simon and Lis and their four month old baby Benjamin. I have known Simon and Lis since university and they were also part of a team I took out to Ghana in 1998. We have a lot of great shared […]

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes his faithful friend.
“Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”
Watson replies, “I see millions of stars.”
“What does that tell you?”
Watson ponders for a minute.
“Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there […]

We’re working on a flier to give out primarily to new students arriving in Sheffield to study this September. Students are going to be a big part of our focus in these early stages as we pioneer Mosaic Sheffield and we are developing a 10 week internship to invest in and equip students to make […]

Following a successful meeting with the Starbucks district manger and a couple of store managers, we are go, go, go with our book club idea! The plan is to trial it for three months and see how it goes. Starbucks will provide the venue, free coffee sampling, and a 10% discount for all food and […]

Freedom. We long for it with all our hearts. We pursue it with every ounce of our being. We feel anguish when it seems like we are trapped. We come alive when we break free from the shackles that enslave us. And yet. And yet it is so elusive. It seems like it is always […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom today and had this thought pop into my head whilst I was washing up this evening:
“Freedom is found within the boundaries that the forbidden blinds us to.”
Thought I’d also post the lyrics from a great song by Natasha Bedingfield:
Wild Horses
I feel these four walls closing in
Face up against […]

It’s not every weekend you get to stay in an English stately home. And, having seen the prices, I don’t think it’s very likely we’ll be there again any time soon. But for this weekend when my mother turned 60, she decided she wanted to take us all away to stay in this gorgeous Stately […]