Having undertaken a proper bout of procrastination this evening I have discovered through Onmebus , (another random blog whose owner I don’t know but I occassionally read) that i-tunes is now selling Fat and Frantic .
For those of you too young to remember these were a late 80’s skiffle band who were loads of fun, [...]
I’ve just been reading Nick Cleggs new year message, (see BBC News for a proper summary of the main points) and I have to say if the party think that it is jingoistic spin which is to “reach beyond the stale two-party system” I want no part of it.
Within the speech Clegg is constantly [...]
Glen Marshall , (who I don’t know but like to read), has an interesting post on labelling and the problems with the tendency to disgard them in a postmodern society.
As somebody who bangs on the whole time about inclusivness and looking at people beyond labels, but then uses specific labels to point out who is [...]
I have too many books and CD’s but I can’t bring myself to part with most of them. In many ways they are part of me, a way of me expressing my identity around the house and sometimes it is really useful to have them lying there.
For too long I have wondered about the possibility [...]
When does ambition become pure selfishness? It’s a question that I’m thinking about quite deeply at the moment.
I have a dream which I want to pursue. I know that should I manage to make this become reality I am ready to make the sacrifices involved, yet I am not a lone unit. I have Third [...]
Neil has been doing his top films. Here are my favourite books from each month.* Click on the link to read the review.
(*As I rarely read stuff when it’s really new some stuff wasn’t actually first published this year)
Jan: Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope.
Feb: The Island by Victoria Hislop.
March: From Preachers to [...]
Christmas is supposed to be a time for peace and reconciliation when long term enemies can learn to live with each other in harmony. Thus it was commented upon on Christmas Eve that whilst peeling vegtables an Ipswich and a Norwich fan were both in possession of knives but working in harmony and so demonstrating [...]
Tonight I witnessed The Archbishop of Canterbury (Rowan Williams) on the top of an open top bus in the main shopping centre bobbing up and down to We Three Kings of Orient Are. It was the Lord Mayor of Canterbury’s Christmas Gift Fund community carol singing event this evening and it can only be described [...]
It’s been a year since I was on Iona and a year since I came back from Iona thinking this . During my time on the island I was particularly impacted by wandering back and forth through sheep droppings to see one of the most beautiful views on earth that I’ve ever experienced, (North Beach).
I [...]
The question is always do we do “it” before or after the official one?
Well, in our house when it works we like do “it” on the Sunday before when we can incorporate Chrimbo services into the proceedings.
What is “it”, well “it” is actually Christmas.
At this point some of you may be wondering what I am [...]