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On the cliffs around the UK the seabirds are gathering as the breeding season begins. The sheer, white cliffs of Bempton and Flamborough are home to many thousands of gannets, gulls and auks – puffins, razorbills and guillemots. The razorbills and guillemots – hard to distinguish from each other when out at sea or when flying – have already begun to claim their nesting sites, and it is then that it becomes easier to tell them apart.

At our final chapel Bible Study, before the pandemic officially shut it down, our numbers had halved. What was once a full room was occupied by only ten people. Interestingly, of those ten, seven came from households of one occupant. It may not have been a greater thirst for biblical knowledge which brought out those seven, but rather a more intensive need for social interaction. Living by one’s self can render a home into prison from which one must be released.

We’re down in the cellar. The door is open, and a cable is trailing from the electrical socket above the washing machine. It goes down through the backyard, across the backstreet, and onto the allotment.

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well’. 3 John