Category Archives: Family

Match Win, Match Fine

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Jared Hay

I love watching international rugby, and even some Heineken Cup club rugby on TV, but I have no great liking for the culture that surrounds the game. However, since our daughter Catriona took up playing the game seriously at Lancaster … Continue reading →

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Thanks Lord – and now the dancing: 25 years on

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jared Hay

The laughter is making its way to me as I write: five old girlfriends from university days, now fiftysomethings, are catching up the day after the night before. It’s good to hear, and confirms my thought that we are so … Continue reading →

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Sometimes…

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Jared Hay

So, Borgen has started again (spoiler alert!), and it was a very moving and powerful first episode relating to the war in Afghanistan in which the PM changed her mind amid the pain and grief of the loss of life. … Continue reading →

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2 January – ERCU The Messiah

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Jared Hay

Each year, a group of us from Priestfield Church head for the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on 2 January to hear a performance of Handel’s classic Oratorio The Messiah. It’s always an enjoyable occasion, but none better than today. Usually … Continue reading →

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Back to ‘normal’?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Jared Hay

Today was the day that life returned to ‘normal.’ The festive season is over, our daughter returned to University, our son to school and my wife will return to choir practice tonight. So the alarm went off at 7am and … Continue reading →

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