Its that time of year again. Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.
2025 Edition
Welcome to my Blog
This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
- Version 1: Was hand coded posts on my original Website back in the early 90’s before the term Blog was even invented.
- Version 2: Was on Livejournal
- Version 3: Was on the three-Ninjas site
- Version 4: (And hopefully final version) is here!
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
From the Darkest Depths, Brighter Days Ahead: A Winter Solstice Reflection
On the longest night of the year, the world feels as though it pauses, just for a heartbeat, between one breath and the next. The veil thins, not in the ghost‑story sense, but in the way a still lake reveals the sky when the wind finally rests....
The Last Masonic Meeting of 2025 – For real This Time
This evening was my final Masonic event of 2025! and I swear, this time it really is the last one. Hugh had been battling a bad cold and couldn’t make it to Wynnstay Lodge on Wednesday, so we agreed the year wouldn’t feel complete without a proper...
The Last Masonic Meeting of 2025 – Try Two
This evening was my final Masonic event of 2025. I am all done until next year. Ok, So I may have already posted about my last Masonic Meeting of the year, but in my defence when I wrote that post it really was my last meeting of 2025. I had...
Coronatio Quadrans – “Persecution of French Freemasons In The Second World War”
The latest issue of Coronatio Quadrans (Issue #8 - Winter Solstice 2025) just hit the news-stand (And by the news-strand, I of course mean my inbox), so why not do and try and get yourself a copy for some interesting Christmas time reading. Once...
BBW – The Christmas Party
This evening was the Blood Bikes Christmas Party!!! We had decided (by popular vote) that we would move the monthly meeting to a Saturday this month and turn it into a Christmas Party. So at 7:30pm all the good boys and girls of the NE Blood Bikes...
The Last Masonic Meeting of 2025
This evening was my final Masonic event of 2025. I am all done until next year. I ended the year with Wrexhamian Chapter. The plan for the evening was to do a demonstration of an exhalation ceremony. To gives the new officers a chance to practice...
The Anti-Masonic Metropolitan Police
The United Grand Lodge of England (“UGLE”), the home of Freemasonry in England, Wales and the Channel Islands, notes today’s announcement by the Metropolitan Police that it will now require mandatory declaration of membership of Freemasonry as a...
BBW: Frost Fayre More like Wet Fayre
To recover from the stress of yesterdays Provincial Convocation, I decided to have an easy day today. So I went along to the Ruabon Frost Fayre to see Santa with the Blood Bike Wales guys. And as the song goes "The weather outside is frightful"...
My First Provincial Convocation (organising it)
I can now relax! Today was the Province of Western Counties and North Wales' Provincial Convocation. This is our annual meeting where we all gather together, see how all the colleges in the Province are doing, what is new, and Invest the Provincial...