HAPPY HALLOWE’EN EVERYONE

 
Tonight is Halloween when ghouls, ghosts and witches hit the streets and little ones fill their bags with treats. But the forecast is for the temperature is to drop tonight so if you are taking your little ghost or witch or pumpkin trick or treating please make sure they are wrapped  warm as it looks like there might be a ‘bite’ in the air.

SORRY WE MISSED YOU – NEW FILM FROM KEN LOACH

His job is making life awkward for those in power. And yet. It’s hard to imagine England without him. The films are as part of the culture as real ale or rainy bank holidays. Familiarity dulls the attack not an iota. Sorry We Missed You, his latest, is ruthless on the iniquities of the “gig economy” and bogus self-employment. It will generate as much chatter as did I, Daniel Blake.

AN EXTRACT FROM KENNETH ROY’S FINAL BOOK

It looks like a beautiful day out there. My little patch of sky, of which I’m inordinately fond, keeps me posted. Dr Gillen arrives with the news that my haemoglobin level has doubled in the last 24 hours and I am able to inform him in response that I’ve written 3,000 words in the same 24-hour period, and so for the moment… for the moment… in overtime what one does is savour the moment… because it’s all there is… for the moment, we’re both pleased with me.

CONSIDERING GRACE

Considering Grace records the deeply moving stories of 120 ordinary people’s experiences of the Troubles, exploring how faith shaped their responses to violence and its aftermath. Presbyterian ministers, victims, members of the security forces, those affected by loyalist paramilitarism, ex-combatants, emergency responders and health-care workers, peacemakers, politicians, people who left Presbyterianism and ‘critical friends’ of the Presbyterian tradition provide insights on wider human experiences of anger, pain, healing, and forgiveness.

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