I just want room to live

I made a news years resolution at new year. I don’t make them every year, the last one I really stuck at was to give up smoking and that was 13 years ago. I think for a new years resolution to work it has to be something that can be measured and as it based… Continue reading I just want room to live

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Rip it up and start again

We had a discussion about church the other night. Nothing too unusual, we have them quite frequently, however, this time it became quite heated and people got upset. The gist of the debate was my proposition that the church tends to make people more unhappy than happy. I contested that it is not possible for… Continue reading Rip it up and start again

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Say Hello to the Angels

My father passed away last week, this is the eulogy I am thinking of delivering at his funeral next week. It was a long time before we realised that dad was ill. Not the illness that took him from us 12 days ago, I knew almost from the first time we saw him lying in… Continue reading Say Hello to the Angels

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Vicar in a Tutu

– He just wants to live his life this way hehey. Following on a little from my last entry but a little bit more churchy (sorry), I read an article that interested me the other day concerning the calling of ministers. I think I may have touched on this before. I have increasingly felt that… Continue reading Vicar in a Tutu

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I am a lineman for the county

Except of course I am not. I wanted a title that had a job in it and there aren’t many finer examples of the job/song fusion than Glen Campbell’s classic. Since my last post there have been a number of job related events in the news, some of which echo my comments. If you recall… Continue reading I am a lineman for the county

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