Happy New Year
Hope you all have a happy and blessed 2009.
Goodbye ‘08
Ok, so I know there’s another few days to go, but hey… tomorrow we’re off up north to visit friends.
So my personal round up of ‘08 – linking back to what I said at the time (sometimes)
Favourite album: Pink – Funhouse
Favourite single:Scouting for Girls – I Wish I Was James Bond
Favourite Live Act: Leave that – it would [...]
Twilight Obsession
Third Party currently has an obsession with Twilight. I understand this is not unusual amongst girls of a certain age, at the moment.
:)ing at Chrimbo
Christingle services are cool – you get to play with sweets and candles!!! Ok, no big deal you might think but for me candles are a forbidden luxury which I so miss. You see under the terms of my rental agreement even having unlit ones in the flat is taken as a symbol of intent and [...]
Diverse Christmas Greetings
Surfing through the Church Times I noticed this article about Gordon putting the “Christ back in Christmas”. It was “nice” that the prime minister did it, but I found the accompanying picture v. depressing. You might want to play the “diversity find the face game” with this photo. You get points for seeing the face of [...]
Coming Home
A few days ago I wrote on my Facebook status “Tractor Girl is not sure if she is going “home” on Friday. Well, now I’ve arrived I am sure, I have come home on fleeting Christmas visit.
Coming home means being welcomed at the station
Coming home means a succession of hugs from your “family”, old and [...]
Happy Christmas
Ok, it might be a bit premeture – I don’t know. (Access to computers after today until early Jan dependent upon good will of friends I think).
This year has been amazing for me. Thanks to all of you who helped me on the massive adventure through prayer, good advice or whatever.
Third Party and I had [...]
“In the war of circulation, it sells newspapers”
Ok, so Billy Bragg was referring to sex and soap operas in “It Says Here” and I’m talking religion as usual, (this being a bit of a God Blog), but the principal is the same – newspapers give what they think the reader wants.
On this basis one can only think that The Guardian has woken up [...]
Sojourners Christmas Subversion
Sojourners, the US biblical truth and justice group, have been getting an ickle Christmasy. On their God’s Politics Blog you can find daily reflections through advent from Diana Bulter Bass. They are also advocating “A Peace and Justice Christmas” which the was what “the subversive sing-a-long” email I got from them today was advocating.
It said, “In the spirit of [...]
Happy Holidays and a social whirl
This time of year is intended, I think, to develop ones time management skills. The undergrads and MA students seem to have a list of deadlines to contend with and even those of us without formal end of term deadlines are trying to get lots of work done in between socialising and preparing for Christmas.
Saturday [...]