Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

  Good morning Peter, and good morning to everyone who’s listening. If you have Disney+ or watch National Geographic channel I wonder if you have ever seen the programme, “ Scrapyard Supercar ”? In this programme two teams battle it out over 4 days to build a car from the debris found at a car scrapyard that will then beat the performance of a top of the range supercar! It’s a classic programme. We love watching it as a family, and I’d recommend it. It does seem very surprising that for example a Ford Ka welded onto a Range Rover chassis, or Citroen 2CV with a motorbike stuck on the back could outperform a Bentley Benteyga or a Jaguar F-type at a specific challenge, but amazingly they do it again and again! It’s great TV, and it’s made all the more fun by the race against time, combined with the banter between the scrapyard teams (who are often car mechanics or rally drivers), and former Boyzone singer Shane Lynch. It’s amazing what these guys can pull off an old scrapyard ...

  Good morning Peter, and good morning to everyone who’s listening. My thought for the day today is entitled, “Have a break”. According to a recent Harvard Business Review, when one business woman recently did a survey, documenting answers to the question “how are you?” 8 out of 10 people replied “busy” [1] . Now I don’t know what sort of circles you move in, but a lot of people today are busy, busy, busy. It’s kind of ironic, because compared to our forebears, we have more labour-saving devices that can do our washing for us, we have technology that in theory could do some of our thinking for us and we have overall better healthcare that should mean we are living longer and are more productive. But everyone is busy. Perhaps even now you are dashing from one thing to the next, or you’ve got a to do list that is growing longer each day, and you’re not sure how to cope. Well can I suggest one practical step. “Have a break”. No this is not an advert for a kitkat! It’s a return t...