Graham’s Mum Josie talks about why she sends over 4,000 Christmas cards on BBC 3 Counties Radio.
Josie Brown Christmas Card Interview
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Cat-echism
Early one Sunday Yasmin,
With the meows of the street-cleaner outside
Calling the faithful to morning,
I swept up to find the bed-covers woken down:
A church on my chest,
Its whiskers tickling my matins cold.
Protesting its breakfast call
For a chin of tuna or an earful of biscuits,
I prayed it would let me wake on just one more bowl.
But the tinny sermon of fishy pleas
Lightly drove me from my breath
And I rose down to find the day had taken me.
Bedded open, the curtains loudly showed
The netted calling of passers-by
Proceeding up for salvation below.
I laced the bowls with hope and donned my dream,
I buttoned my questions and my coat,
I shod my gloves and joined the stream.
No room at the inn
News is breaking – and being widely commented upon on the various social media – that Peter and Hazelmary Bull have put their £750,000 Cornwall, UK B&B on the market due to poor guest numbers and legal costs. This is the married Christian couple who would not let a double room to gay civil partners Steven Preddy and Martyn Hall at Chymorvah Hotel in 2008 because they believe in sex only between married couples. The gay couple sued and won. The B&B owners appealed and lost.
The Bulls claim in addition to this they have been subjected to a hate campaign; vandalism (they say their car wheels were tampered with), death threats, a rabbit nailed to their fence and an orchestrated “sting operation” by gay activists. Opponents say that comments on the trip advisor website concerning their B&B show the true reason for their failure; It’s a real shame because it could be a lot better if the rooms were cleaner/up to date and fresh and the people running the hotel more hospitable.
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