I first met Janie in 2002 when I joined Wyre Forest PCT as project manager for a national collaborative medicines management project. She was already a volunteer helping
to set up Patient Participation groups in GP practices and I nabbed her as patient rep for my project. Based in Kidderminster 14 miles from home in Worcester, Janie and I soon
became great friends as she invited me home to tea on days when I had evening meetings. We often met in her home to do business as we planned all sorts of activities related
to the project, so I partook of delicious snacks, lunches, Ken's homemade soups and often took home vegetables from his allotment.
Janie had a real enthusiasm for educating
schoolchildren as she had been head of Biology for many years and we did drama and film-making for which Janie managed to organize professionals to help us from her pool of
former pupils. After that she moved with me from project to project and, as we did, her skills were recognized by more eminent people in the NHS who in turn recruited her to
their working groups. She was a great and generous friend to me and I learned an enormous amount from her. Her example and influence will stay with me for the rest of my life.
See Tribute by Maggie Boysen
Open Doors World Watch List 2011 is a list of countries where the persecution of Christians is most severe. For nine consecutive years Communist North Korea has topped the List
but christian believers in Muslim states such as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq face increasing persecution from extremist groups. Despite
these hardships, the worldwide church continues to grow.
"The fact that over 2,200 Christians were killed because they were Christians and millions more are routinely persecuted in defiance of
international law should stop us in our tracks. We need to pledge unconditional support to those who share our faith but not our freedoms."
- Eddie Lyle, CEO of Open Doors UK & Ireland UK and Ireland More
Auld Lang Syne
Posted on December 31st 2011
"Robert Burns may well be most famous not for a poem he wrote, exactly, but for a poem he wrote down." More
- Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
- And never brought to mind?
- Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
- And auld lang syne!
- Chorus:
- For auld lang syne, my dear,
- For auld lang syne.
- We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
- For auld lang syne.
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- And surely ye'll be your pint stowp!
- And surely I'll be mine!
- And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
- For auld lang syne.
- Chorus
- We twa hae run about the braes,
- And pou'd the gowans fine;
- But we've wander'd mony a weary fit,
- Sin' auld lang syne.
- Chorus
- We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,
- Frae morning sun till dine;
- But seas between us braid hae roar'd
- Sin' auld lang syne.
- Chorus
- And there's a hand, my trusty fere!
- And gie's a hand o' thine!
- And we'll tak a right gude-willie waught,
- For auld lang syne.
- Chorus
