Just a big kid really
Been on the beach with Third Party playing snowballs. Yes you did read that right the beach and snowballs
The try should have stood
Ok, so there is the part of me that says, well at least it means they’re still on for the Grand Slam, but the fact still stands the ref was not wonderful and the try in the first half should have stood.
For those of you who haven’t got the faintest what I’m on about England [...]
A good read and a clear response
Today I have read Karen Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase, the follow up to Through The Narrow Gate which was part of my Christmas reading. Reading through I was struck by the recurring point that through the majority of religions it is right practice rather than right belief which is the key.
Also there is reference [...]
Time to think about it
Have done a spot of morning surfing and two postings I’ve read have hit me this morning. One is the following quote from The Methodist Recorder which was on Connexions :
Two paragraphs from the latet edition of The Methodist Recorder
“…the camps at Auschwitz did not come into being overnight. What began as a barracks [...]
A good night in
This weekend looks like it is going to be one of the first ‘non-weekends’ in I don’t know how long.
So Third Party and I are well prepared: Chocolate cake, a good book each and Colin Firth and Judy Dench on Video. I was already to go and buy Edge of Reason on video today, [...]
Music and theory to be enjoyed
Happy culture (1) Post is normally bills or junkmail,but occassionally you get something a little more interesting. Todays post contained the junk mail but it also contained Sociology, the journal of the BSA. Normally I flick through and find one, sometimes two articles that I’m really interested in. However, in this issue there are about [...]
Now Happier
Now greatful for the white stuff. In the spot of surfing around bloggs I have been doing before getting down to the paperwork and prep have found the following link from Brother Maynard which focuses on a number of the positive aspects of the journey from “traditional” ideas about church, rather than from churches. [...]
Weather Grumble
Ok, so it’s lunchtime and I’m home. Today it took over one and half hours to get to work and then about the same time to decide as there were practically no students and the college was closing early anyway I would grab a lift home at lunchtime with a colleague.
As such I am now [...]
Censorship or Protection?
Last night I came across the Channel Four Dispatches programme which was looking at the issue of art and faith and the recent cases where there have been protests by Sikhs, Muslims and Christians against various pieces of art.
Whilst I can kinda see both sides of the argument I have to in [...]
Little light in the darkness
Last night we had a powercut, no big deal. It only lasted about half an hour and wasn’t too inconvienient.
However, during that half an hour I understood a little more about the value of humanity and what these days is a little counter cultural. I don’t really know my neighbours (I definately come into the [...]