2022-05-15 17:05
I am very disappointed.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day which falls in September each year is one of my favourite annual observances. However, last week National Geographic magazi… Read More
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A Somerset Lad
2022-05-14 18:55
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” John 13:35
The letters of the word “glory” provide a useful acrostic to help… Read More
2022-05-13 21:02
There was a sense of delight in going from door to door in support of the local Labour Party senator. Departing from the church brought a freedom to be myself, freedom not to worry what peop… Read More
2022-05-12 19:49
This morning, I lent my copy of David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count to a colleague. It is a brilliant piece of polemic against the antisemitism of supposedly progressive groups (ant… Read More
2022-05-11 20:31
‘Now, I would advise you to go home and to sleep for as long as possible. Take some paracetamol and try to go to sleep, it will be the best way to deal with the pain.’
Feeling th… Read More
2022-05-10 20:21
I picked up a book given to me in 1986 as an ordination gift by a neighbour of my grandmother.
There was a momentary wince of pain recalling the last time I saw my grandmother on a winter&rs&hell…Read More
2022-05-09 20:47
I have put on a stone since last summer, I weighed twelve and a half stones this morning.
If I had to identify the cause of the weight gain, it’s probably too much bread and cheese. In… Read More
2022-05-08 19:57
Three weeks until Marseilles. Hours have been spent on Duolingo.
Travelling via Lyon and travelling alone, I want to get by in French.
Unpacking my boxes of books that arrived from England l… Read More
2022-05-07 20:29
“My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:27
Four verbs used by Jesus in the Gospel reading can help thinking about the sheep and the shepherd.
“Be… Read More
2022-05-06 21:53
Evolution, as secondary school students will tell you, is a process without purpose or design. A chance difference may give the possessor of a particular trait an advantage over those that d… Read More
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