On Wednesday 7th August 2013, Marshall Meek went home to be with Jesus. He was 88 years old and had been ill for some months but had still found the strength to speak at our monthly Men’s Breakfast last May and, indeed, had attended what turned out to be his last Breakfast meeting just a […]
Our June 2013 Breakfast saw us guys debate the vexed issue of “why the world needs men”! You can imagine the way the discussion went! Did you know that women like silent men? The trouble is they mistakenly take this to mean we are listening! But then one teenage boy was heard to say to […]
It is often easy to stand alongside our brothers at a football match, or at the bar, or on a healthy hike. These are good “blokey” things to do. They feed our sense of worth, appeal to our desire to be seen to be “manly” – and they are good fun! However, I wonder […]
Our CVM Group in Mid-Northumberland is made up largely of older – and some quite elderly! – men, perhaps bucking the trend elsewhere in the UK. Sadly, this means that occasionally we have to inform the group that one of our number has died. Fred Swainston, who passed away recently, was in at the beginning […]
Having spent nine years working for Age Concern I feel just a little qualified to know something about growing older – and according to Age Concern you are an older man when you reach the age of 50! Now before you start complaining, I did not say OLD – I said OLDER! Older is a […]
