Yesterday I was chatting with TOH about a decision she had made not to continue down the path she had been, marked potential ordinand, at the moment. This friend had realised that whilst she does not want to be an academic God has blessed her with an passion for and skill in a particular subject area. [...]
BBC has an interesting, but in places slightly depressing, report on the latest social attitudes survey. It shows people are less inclined to feel it is there duty to vote, (depressing) but also less inclined to believe homosexual acts are wrong (positive).
The divisions that do exist are interesting though because they do illustrate that some [...]
Yesterday I began some training for a new bit of adventuring, which I’m not ready to go totally public with yet. It was an interesting experience which raised a couple of questions for me; why don’t need to ask and don’t need to say is more problematic an approach than it may first appear and [...]
Second term of your first year at uni; time of your life. Yes you have to work, but you have no exams and the ones next term don’t normally count towards your final grade, you just need enough to get you through to the second year. You’ve started to make friends and gotten used to [...]
Well the heading basically sums up my Christmas, sort of.
After seeing Third Party onto the train on Christmas Eve morning part two of my Christmas began. TOH gave me part 1 of my Christmas present by taking me off to Newcastle to treat me to lunch and seeing Avatar, (thankfully in 2D). The film was [...]
It seemed like a “nice” idea at the time. “It seemed like the right thing to do”. “Well somebody had to do it, and I thought I could”. “Well, I just felt it had to be done”. “I prayed about it and I felt it really was my calling”. Next time I say any of [...]
The other night Third Party and I were having a fun night of messing about on You Tube looking up kids choruses and stuff she remembered from being ickle. All a good exercise in understanding why Christians don’t need drugs. Best one we found was this rendition of Joy, Joy, Joy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6yzjDXp_og
It’s interesting living in an “international community” when it snows. Each year the first snow brings people out of their flats, who’ve never seen the white stuff before. Yesterday there was something really heart warming watching a couple of blokes outside with a gaggle of kids showing them how to play in the snow.
Here is [...]
The last 24 hours has been even stranger than usual in terms of who has found this blog, and so I thought I would do a “useful post”. The stats tell me that people came here using the following range of search terms:
picture of Jesus caught in the storm December 16, 2009, 4:55 am
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There was a time when it was “Cider and Carols” and “Beer and Hymns”. I remember this sort of well, (it was the evening of the infamous pint of wine incident when I encountered it at Greenbelt). Appears times change though and these days it’s “Beer and Carols“. A search amongst the GB archieves indicates [...]