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 …
Author: SteveP
I am married with one wife, three grown kids, one cat and no hair.
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 …
Why do we do that?
Why join in? Yesterday I attended Choral Evensong at York Minster. Today it was back to the usual. And I enjoyed both. In York, the professionalism of the cathedral choir and organist combined with the acoustics of the minster itself was powerful. Though the lack of anything to join in with was missed. We sat, …
Back to York
Back to York, and the shop from where I was liberated. The reason for the trip, the humans were meeting some people they'd met on the internet. I hear they're all axe-murderers, but they seem happy to risk it, as it is some sort of religious connection. Ship of Fools they call themselves. Fools, sounds …
Harvest home?
We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land. Or do we? Do we even know where our food comes from? Apart from Sainsbury's, or Aldi? As for scattering, we have been using seed drills for over 300 years. That's before that song was even written. Even in rural areas harvest has …
The end of the real lager trail?
Between the railway stations of Leeds and Manchester there is a problem. Lager. What started off as a nice idea, take the train to the pub, has become a nightmare in the villages on the route. The culprit, the Real Ale Trail. Trains The stations of Dewsbury and Stalybridge have a pub that can be …
God exists by two falls to a submission
Debating the existence of God God exists by two falls to a submission, or so the Monty Python boys told us all those years ago. An idea that sounds silly, as does a lot of Python, but is no sillier than determining the existence of God by debate. Which is why the conversation on the …
Abuse
Sex abuse and particularly the sexual abuse of children has been in the news this week. Tuesday, the news was that Michael Le Vell has been found not guilty on charges of child abuse. More on this later. Wednesday, news from India that a gang of 4 were convicted, and faced being sentenced to death, …
This is for YOU.
This is worth passing on. I've nothing to add, other than to ask you to read someone's thoughts on World suicide prevention day.
Donkey in the churchyard
I don't think they knew I was there. I'm talking about the churchyard clear up day Lots of people, including the community police, community payback, some scouts and lots of people from the church were clearing the churchyard from lots of overgrown trees, mostly rhododendrons. There was a lot of wood cleared the filled a …
Making an ass of myself 