I think I may actually offend every single church going person I know with this post. I’m not sorry. Just so we’re clear, you know – in advance. So started a blog on Halloween by TroubleFace Mom last year. And I agree to an extent. To a degree because Halloween is celebrated differently in the …
Month: Oct 2013
Another fine mess
Oh dear, Church of England, what have you done? Yesterday's news that the good ol' C of E were considering taking the mess they have got themselves into over the appointment of women as Bishops to arbitration cannot be good news. Not in the short term. That the CofE cannot sort out its internal wrangling …
Confidence
Confidence is something people admire, even subconsciously. there was an experiment which showed this on TV recently. A group of about 12 to 15 people were in a room with two doors. They were told that there would soon be a fire alarm and they had to leave by one door. What they were not …
Which England is that?
The EDF Last Saturday, the English Defence League's demonstration in Bradford came and went without the feared violence.Most of it seemed to involve the EDF protesters chanting at themselves. What intrigues me about the EDL is which England is it that they are defending, because it is not the England that I've lived in for …
Born to be mild
Life in the fast slow lane. The annual Mensa boat trip, and this time they brought me along. I suppose it was to pull the narrowboat, but fortunately it had an engine. I don't know what use they thought a stuffed toy would be though. This is my impersonation of Leo diCaprio from Titanic. And here's …
It’s Good News Week.
We've made the news. We being Holy Trinity Church Huddersfield, and the news being th local paper. Here's the story. Not only that, we made the editorial column, A few words about respecting graves. The story says: The site had for years been a hangout for nuisance drinkers and drug addicts who peppered the site with …
Making an ass of myself 