Just another Brexit blog. Cost of membership £18 billion Recent figures from the leave campaign talk about the cost of Britain being in the EU. It costs around £240 each they say, based on the membership of £18 billion per annum they say. They have a point. That is what British membership costs up front. …
Month: Apr 2016
New instument
I have just put a deposit on a new instrument, one of these: What I like is that it is ancient and modern, modern electronic sounds and samples triggered from a traditional folk instrument. http://www.roland.co.uk/products/el_cajon_ec-10/ It will arrive in about two weeks. Then I can start playing with it. I am going to do this …
Fundamentalism and the Pope
Pope Francis has spoken out against training fundamentalists as priests as they could be hiding psychological problems. Story here. As someone on the autistic spectrum, therefore seen as having a psychological problem (it is a problem to other people, not me) I may sympathise, but realistically I know that people like me who do not …
Tolerance
You are clearly a tolerant person, who is thoughtful about the needs of other people. So says a quiz on the Guardian web site. So it must be right — uch to the dismay of those who know me. The quiz was called are you as nice as you think you are, so that would …
Are you sure?
Holy Trinity Huddersfield, 17 April 2016 We learnt from vicar Mike Wilkins at the Church Annual Meeting today that the congregation had grown. Some have come from other churches, but a few are new to church or have not attended for some time. He said that filling in the numbers for the powers that be …
Blog CLOSED
This blog is now CLOSED After much thought I have decided to close this blog. Following a diagnosis for Diabetes Type 2 in October 2015 and symptoms back to September, I have no longer the energy to write two blogs at the frequency to keep people coming back and reading. The fatigue on days when …
Shake it all about
In out, in out. Britain and the EU On June 23 this year the people of the United Kingdom and Gibraltar will have the the chance to vote in a referendum on whether they wish to remain as members of the European Union. The debate has started, and it is not easy to sort out. …
Truth and persecution
Two stories from the news this week concerning the Christian church undergoing persecution. The first concerns Fr Tom Uzhunnalil who was kidnapped from an old people's home on 4 March 2016 in a raid that killed 4 nuns and 20 others. The religious organisation that Fr Tom belonged to, the Missionaries of Charity, and the diocese of …
DNA and the ABC – The Real Justin
I was halfway through writing a blog on this myself, but this from Stephen Cherry says it better than I could. There is much that is surprising and impressive about the story in the news this weekend about the Archbishop of Canterbury discovering that his biological father was not the man married to this mo… Source: DNA …
Sorry, Nick
I have been disappointed with the Liberal Democrats in coalition. Nick Clegg as leader did not look assertive enough. Whenever there was some bad news to deliver from the government Prime Minister David Cameron was on holiday, so Deputy Prime Minister Clegg had to deliver the bad news. Cameron, aka Teflon Dave, managed to get …
Making an ass of myself 