Author: Simon Beresford

During this special season of preparation, I am going to try really hard to reflect what I believe about Advent and Christmas in how I […]

……not resolutions. Sometimes, just for a brief moment, I think there may be something in my conscious worth sharing. I talk a lot of nonsense, […]

I took my mum to see SkyFall last night, at Cineworld Wakefield. It was really good, and we both enjoyed ourselves. It was very busy. As mum was in a wheelchair, we had to sit right at the front. Its very disconcerting when, during the odd slow mo…

….and then it’s gone! …. and then we go back to work!

Wentworth Terrace, St John’s, WakefieldWaiting patiently with mum and Anna…… And hundreds of very excited school children!Come on Torchy!

It has not gone unnoticed that we are boarding a cruise liner tomorrow, on the centenary anniversary of RMS Titanic’s foundering in the North Atlantic. That ship, greatly remembered in the media and on television at the moment, was considered “uns…

Spring is just wonderful. Light, colour, warmth, new life. Hope.I had a lovely drive to Scarborough today. I drove slower than usual, just to enjoy the scenery!Lots of wildlife, sadly a fair bit of it dead at the side of the road…..I am greatly …

Well, what a great evening! Northern Ballet Theatre performing Madame Butterfly at The Grand Theatre, Leeds.Neither Marlene or I really knew the story but we quickly caught up from the programme over the first half of a nice bottle of wine before …