“I’m not sure I’m a natural ‘blogger’ – I’m more of a ‘doer’.  My life consists of being mad busy, meeting folk, meetings and their preparation, shifting and lifting stuff, occasionally digging, cutting wood, washing up, repairing this and that, helping my wife Hil keep an hospitable house going, and then getting happily back to note taking, note making and one to ones with different folk.

So here’s what I hope might be a series of random, informal, instinctive, uncrafted, thoughts and snippets.  Blog?  no, probably not.   I’ll try to make the Shewsy the heart of the stuff I write, because that’s where my heart remains.

The club does a wonderful job in supporting children and young people, many of whom have a tricky start to life and whose parents suffer the heel end of the shoe in our privileged society’s set up.

We can  always do better and that’s our aim.  We want to see the Shewsy secure and flourishing.  It is important. I hope these news updates can help that cause”.