This year we had an informal family service for Mothering Sunday  with mothers and children of all ages. My 2 year old grandson, the only little child present, enjoyed the less structured approach, lasted the whole service without feeling the need to tear around the place and charmed all the mothers (in fact all women […]

  That Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world after Brazil probably comes as much of a surprise  to you as it did to me and the reason most of us haven’t noticed this is because its rise has been almost literally meteoric. In 1986, after 10 years of failed collectivised farming the […]