Nov 28, 2024 | Christmas, QPUpdate
Did you know that one of the Christmas songs we will no doubt sing this season has a link to Paisley? In recent years we have at Christmas time sung the song Adore which was written by Martin Chalk and Graham Kendrick. Martin, who now lives in South Carolina, grew up...
Nov 21, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
Find my Past Many of us these days are fascinated by our family history. I did a bit of digging in my father’s paternal line and found the Sprotts hailed from Blantyre. George Sprott, a retired miner, constructed a row of tenements called ‘Sprott’s Buildings’ to house...
Nov 14, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
So, I missed you last weekend. To come clean, I was indulging in a personal obsession. I was enjoying a long-planned dad-and-daughter weekend in the west of France for the start of the 10th “Vendee Globe” single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Our obsession with...
Nov 7, 2024 | QPUpdate, Strengthening the Heart of the Fellowship
My alarm goes off. It is Wednesday morning, and some strange alchemy has happened overnight. When I went to bed our duvet was made of cotton and a light fibre fill, but the temperature difference between under the duvet and outside the duvet has transformed the cotton...
