View from the Potting Shed

This link (www.brokennews.co.uk/bbc_02.html) landed in my inbox today, bounced out of my inbox and was rudely ushered into my junk mail folder.
Thankfully, however, I have eyes (with small discs of glass balanced in front of them, using specially-designed wires that hook behind my ears to stabilize them) and I can read, so I just bounced […]

Yesterday in an article on the BBC News website Prince Charles was quoted as saying that climate change “should be seen as the ‘greatest challenge to face man’ and treated as a much bigger priority in the UK.”
I quite agree. It’s nearly the end of October, the 28th no less, and it is currently […]

It was the Edinburgh Diocesan Synod this evening (Thursday), and I have to say that I quite enjoyed it.

I mean, it’s a little frustrating that there is no opportunity for any in-depth discussion about issues (as was raised by someone), and the pew seats were both short of leg room and terribly uncomfortable, but I […]

When I got out of Synod this evening I switched on my mobile phone (the Nokia 5140i that I promised I’d review but haven’t got round to yet) and there was a text message from my sister:
Any chance you could phone our landline? We have a bizarre request! Love Jen n Ben xx
I phoned Jenni […]

How long have I been blogging — a few years now? And to date the post that gets the most comments is one about what is your favourite cheese!
Brilliant! I love it.
I just did a search on Google Images for cheese. Why is that third photo there?!

My cousin Zack emailed me an interview with Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister from Motorhead that appeared recently in The Independent. This bit made me smile:
Lemmy has lived in Los Angeles for 15 years. “Home is in here,” he says, tapping his temple. “Where you live is just a geographical preference. I like it here because […]

I’m slowly working my way through my in-tray and I’ve come across the latest issue of Congregations, the magazine of the Alban Institute. This quarter’s edition (Fall 2005 … that’s ‘Autumn’ in British money) is entitled “Talking About Faith: How the words we use and the stories we tell shape our congregations, our denominations, and […]