“It’s going to be a bright, bright sun-shiny day”

What a start to the Bank Holiday sunshine: jumping off the bus the other evening, listening to ChérieFM, the French “pop love music” station, via Bluetooth headset, when my face totally lit up as I heard Johnny Nash singing “I can see clearly now the rain has gone” (1972). I was 15 back then. The early May…

Do you speak Yugoslavian?

A very well-to-do woman came up to me and asked “Govorite li Jugoslavija?” …  I replied “Ne govorim hrvatski” 

The Rabbi and the bean bags

For my first degree, I read Theology at what was then called the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC or Cantaur).  It is now simply ‘the University of Kent’, as it has a campus at Medway, shared with the Universities of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church, too.  Formed in 1965, the University took the original…