Category: writing

Did any of you see the wonderful ‘Choir’ series on the telly recently? I did and what an uplifting tale of one person’s vision for a community being realised so effectively. For those of you unfamilliar with the concept, Gareth Malone, a choirmaster goes into a community, be that a school or, in the case of… Continue reading I’d like to teach the world to sing

There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life So spaketh the atheist-in-chief, Richard Dawkins and thus it came to pass…. people waiting at the bus stop, plastered to the side of  the bus. I like this story.  I understand that the ‘probably’ is there to avoid the advertising standards council blocking the… Continue reading I still haven’t found what I’m looking for

– 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

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

Warning, this post contains words that some people may find offensive Unmistakebly the Sex Pistols, today’s title works on more than one level as it happens. I have just returned from Dubai where a lot of people spend their holidays in the sun. I spent a few days working out of the sun when I… Continue reading I don’t want a holiday in the sun

I was going to title this ‘crisis what crisis?’ but really, the chance to use Public Enemy over Supertramp was really no contest at all. I am a bit of a late comer to the rap/hip hop party, never really thought it was for me I suspect. Last week though I bought ‘It Takes a… Continue reading Don’t believe the hype

We finished our lent discussion group last night. This has been an interesting 5 weeks. We joined in with the Alglicans at St Marks. All very nice people and along the way we had some quite interesting sessions. The course was on relationships. Last night we focussed on our relationship with God. The night opened… Continue reading Your own personal Jesus

I refer, of course, to the inimitable Cesar Millan. For those of you uninitiated this is the Dog Whisperer. The Dog Whisperer is on Sky3 at 6 most evenings and, for a dog owner, compulsive viewing. If you hear someone give their dog a little ‘sshhtt’ correction as they are out walking them then, chances… Continue reading Dog Man Star

I watched a really good thing on the telly last night, you may have seen it yourself (no it wasn’t echo beach – although I did watch that as well), it was Stuart Maconie presenting  the first in a series of programmes in which he will, with the aid of some notable names from the… Continue reading Well I’m gonna raise a fuss, I’m a gonna raise a holler….

Still looking at hope in BCLC. I am struggling a bit with getting into the subject and I had so much else to do yesterday that I couldn’t get into the activity either. Roll on January. So I will have to tell you about something else that I saw that made me think a lot… Continue reading I hope that God exists, I hope I pray