LIFE thudded onto my doormat yesterday.

If you're puzzled and haven't come across 'LIFE', let me explain. It's the parish magine of Street and Walton, and comes out once a month at the cost of 35p a copy for 16 pages inside a cover - 20 pages in all. Not bad value.

Usually the deadline for contributions is the middle of the month, but the January issue has found room for a report on Church events on Christmas Eve - only 4 days ago.

I do just wonder if some of this was written before the events happened. Anyway, it's all accurate.

If you want LIFE delivered, you can order it, or you can read it on-line at http://www.streetandwalton.co.uk . Click on LIFE magazine in the menu on the left. You won't find the January issue quite yet, because it hasn't come through to me in electronic form, but it will be there any day now, and back numbers for the past 3 years are also there to read. I'm just making an index page for them here.