Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  I wonder if you have ever been back to your old school? Perhaps you live nearby, or your kids or grandkids now go there, so it’s a regular thing. Perhaps you wanted to forget school as quickly as possible, and haven’t set foot in the grounds since. When I got an invite from my old sports team saying they were getting together, I plucked up the courage to get to a school reunion last Saturday. It was fun to see the old dining room, the massive tree that my friend Mark had climbed up, the sports pitches, and there were even a few butterflies when I saw the old sports hall where I did my GCSEs. Much had changed of course- a few new buildings, better school food, and now the kids have mobiles and their own laptops rather than sharing one payphone and one BBC Micro computer (that dates me!). But it was the friends that I was glad to see. For some of them it had been 30 years since I’d seen them. Some of us had a few less hairs than when we last saw one another, but apart from that...

Good morning and welcome to today’s thought for the day. This week hundreds of local kids are wearing their new school shoes, their school bags are packed with exciting new stationary, and tears are being shed (mainly by the parents) as pupils head off to school for a new academic year. Some of them will have had a holiday out of the Huntingdon area, perhaps if they were lucky, with a sunshine destination… though we didn’t see much of the sun around here before this week. Well a couple of weeks ago on BBC’s 2 “Amazing hotels” programme, I learned about a holiday destination with a difference. Joali Being Resort , is a luxury island paradise in the Maldives centred around “harnessing the natural flow of energy from coast to coast”. This island is not only a luxury hotel, but it also bills itself as an immersive wellness experience where you can awaken your inner light with the healing wisdom of nature through biophilic design, ceremonial rituals and pure cuisine. On arrival through ...