FULL ENGLISH Full English Breakfast. 'My body is a temple' We pray over plates Of bacon, sausage and fat. A heart attack on a plate. I am using the Japanese form of Tanka, However I am using the English definition of syllable, counting a diphthong as one syllable rather than two in Japanese and nor …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
This is not a drill
"BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL" This was the text message many received last week. 38 minutes of panic later, the message went out that it was, in fact, a false alarm. Have you ever wondered how much panic you could do in 38 minutes? The Christian life, unlike …
Landmark
This is my 500th blog since I started on WordPress. It is a landmark for me. The best known landmark for this area is the Victoria Tower on Castle Hill. A Victorian folly atop a neolithic site of a hill fort.
Filthy
Filthy rags Isaiah was a strange guy by today's standards. Walking around naked for three years is not something you do these days. I wasn't something generally seen then either. But God told him that he had to go around naked and barefoot for that time, as a sign that the Assyrians would lead the …
Tasteful or otherwise
Thanks Bob. In your Christmas letter you said you enjoyed my computer stuff, tasteful or otherwise. Well its tome for some otherwise. It is not about taste My blogs may not always be tasteful, but then the Bible is not always tasteful either. So I am looking for the most tastless disgusting verse of the …
You mess, you confess
A Haiku* based on my previous blog: You mess, you confess, And God will forgive your sin 'Cause God is like that. *Haiku, a poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five with no rhyming plan, originating in Japan.
Broken resolutions
It's that bonus time of year at gyms all over the country as people the length and breadth of Britain resolve to get fit in the new year and buy a year's membership and then visit the place three times. If they knew that gymnasium was derived from the Greek word for a place to exercise …
Come further in! Come further up!
2017 What an interesting year There is a saying, "May you live in interesting times, and come to the notice of the authorities." That phrase is believed to be a curse. My interesting time this year was July and August, my work was deteriorating due to ill health and at the end of August I …
A very messy Christmas
The last straw Today was our Messy Christmas Crib Service at Holy Trinity Huddersfield. It started off with activities for the children, making cardboard crowns, camels out of food, pipe-cleaner stars for the Christmas tree, that sort of thing. Then the service started. between Christmas carols the Christmas story was acted out by children dressed …
Preparation: Too busy
Christmas, a time of stress. All the preparations to make for Christmas, buying the perfect present, wrapping, sending, writing all the cards, sending. Then there's the house to clean and decorate, and a tree to put up indoors. Then there's all the festive food to buy and cook. All whilst holding down a full time …
Making an ass of myself 