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The story is told of a father who gave his daughter an old car as a graduation present. Before handing over the keys for good he instructed her to have it valued at a used car dealership, a pawn shop and a classic car club. The used car dealership offered her £1,000 because it looked […] The post Your true value appeared first on Turn the Page.

In an iconic scene from the film, Crocodile Dundee is walking through New York city with his girlfriend. Suddenly a mugger steps out with a knife demanding his wallet. Dundee looks at the knife and says, ‘that’s not a knife.’ Then he pulls out an enormous Bowie knife and says, ‘that’s a knife!’ The mugger […] The post Foolish Comparison appeared first on Turn the Page.

Here’s a thought for those of you who celebrated Valentine’s Day with a loved one – do the cards and gifts you received prove that you are loved? The short answer is no they don’t, because love is impossible to prove. All the cards, flowers and chocolates in the world can only ever provide you […] The post The evidence for love appeared first on Turn the Page.

A survey of 18 – 24-year olds revealed that a quarter thought marriage should be a temporary arrangement much like a mobile phone contract. It shows that like so many ‘traditional values’ the idea of lifelong commitment is increasingly seen as unrealistic. Our consumer culture which encourages us to regularly upgrade to the latest model […] The post Our longing for love appeared first on Turn the Page.

Captivated by the personality of a lady he knew only from the comments she had written in the margin of a book, John Blanchard tracked her down and asked to meet. But before they could do so he was sent off to war. For twelve months they wrote to each other, but she refused to […] The post First dates appeared first on Turn the Page.

In the 1940s a professor of theology took his students on a tour of English sites of theological significance. Included on the tour was the home of John Wesley the founder of Methodism and a pivotal figure in the 18thcentury revival that swept through England and North America. At the end of the tour the […] The post Do it again! appeared first on Turn the Page.

For decades the border between the Republic of Ireland and the North was the focus for a bitterly divided community. All that came to end with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. Checkpoints came down and the bitter divisions started to heal. Preventing a return to a hard border, therefore, was a key issue […] The post Tariff free access appeared first on Turn the Page.

Some years ago a famous Christian speaker was invited to preach at a Baptist Church in northern China. For seventy years the church had endured unrelenting discrimination and persecution. They had been forbidden to have regular jobs, their schools and universities taught militant atheism, and they were constantly attacked for their faith. But despite all […] The post Words that last appeared first on Turn the Page.

This week a lost sheep walked down the lane past my house. I knew it was lost because it was on its own and I knew that wasn’t right – sheep are generally supposed to be with others in a field eating grass. Also, not long after the sheep went past someone came running after […] The post The lost sheep appeared first on Turn the Page.

Right about now James Howells must be wishing he could buy Newport Council’s landfill site. In 2009 he bought some bitcoins and stored them on his laptop’s hard drive. The coins quickly forgotten and in time he threw the hard drive away. But then the value of bitcoins surged and by 2017 he realised the […] The post Buried Treasure appeared first on Turn the Page.

As Covid infections in the UK start to show a slight fall, government scientists have warned that deaths will continue to rise as they are already ‘baked in’. The coming weeks will see us pay the price for our social-mixing over Christmas, as infection turns to disease. The deaths are ‘baked in’ and there’s nothing […] The post ‘Baked in’ appeared first on Turn the Page.

Like many others I’m enjoying David Attenborough’s new series ‘Perfect Planet’. Once again, I’m in wonder at the natural world and how finely balanced are the conditions that allow life on earth to exist at all. How these conditions came to be, of course, is a question of debate – was it by chance or […] The post Perfect Planet appeared first on Turn the Page.

According to the ancient Greek myth, a curious Pandora opened a box letting out turmoil, strife, hatred and other evils. Too late she realises that there’s no way to put them back in, but then discovers hope lying at the bottom of the box. In 2016 Donald Trump opened a Pandora’s box in order to […] The post Pandora’s Box appeared first on Turn the Page.

Together with pandemic, lockdown and unprecedented, ‘you’re on mute’ is one of many words and phrases with which we’re now all too familiar. A year ago most of us had never heard of Zoom. Now we regularly stare at a screen trying to lip-read, hoping that whoever’s speaking will realise we can’t hear them before […] The post You’re on mute! appeared first on Turn the Page.

In 2014 George Clooney wanted to give a gift to 14 of his closest friends who had supported him over the years. So he decided to invite them to dinner and surprise them each with a suitcase stuffed with $1 million in $20 bills. But where on earth could he find that amount of cash […] The post A Very Generous Gift appeared first on Turn the Page.

Unlike his predecessors Donald Trump is finding it rather difficult to concede defeat. On election night itself he declared himself the victor when that was still far from certain and in the days following has insisted the election has been stolen. It just goes to show how hard it can be giving up positions of […] The post Handing Over Power appeared first on Turn the Page.

In the spring of 1994 Teresa Salvato took her violin to the music store to have it tuned. The violin had been given to her by her husband whose aunt had given it to him when he was a child. She’d found it lying in the street in 1967 and not being a violin player, […] The post You are priceless appeared first on Turn the Page.

As the number of first-hand witnesses grows smaller with each passing year, we do well to remember the words of the poet Steve Turner: History repeats itself. Has to. No one listens. When the guns fell silent on the Western Front in 1918 it was thought to be the ‘war to end all wars.’ It […] The post We will remember them appeared first on Turn the Page.

In a move that will come as a huge relief to many the UK government has relented on its decision to ban the sale of take-away alcohol during lockdown. A relieved chairman of the Campaign for Real Ale said that he was ‘delighted’ at the change of heart that would avoid pubs having to pour […] The post My Favourite Take-Away appeared first on Turn the Page.

Once again France is reeling from terrorist attacks and the tragic loss of yet more lives. And once again President Macron has asserted that the values of the Republic, including the right to free speech will never be surrendered. He’s a fierce proponent of the idea that religions should be allowed to co-exist under the […] The post Cart with no horse appeared first on Turn the Page.