Luddites My old blog balaam.wibsite.com can no longer be accessed. Using the Wayback Machine I am trying to save whatever can be saved, There are no images available for these old blogs. This blog is from 17 June 2017 In our back garden are five posts . These short posts are older than our hose, …
Category: Huddersfield
Celebrate the managers (Arsenal and Huddersfield)
A tale of two football clubs and three managers Tomorrow will be the last game in this season'd Premier League. Huddersfield Town will be hosting Arsenal. Both teams will have something to celebrate. Huddersfield Town, following their mid week draw at Chelsea, are now safe in the Premier League with a game still to play. …
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A missed opportunity
A Missed opportunity Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 6th May 2018 Vicar Mike missed a trick in his sermon illustration this morning. The sermon illustration he did use was of a flight of geese, and how they can fly 71% further by flying in the V formation. It was all about teamwork, based on Moses's …
Free breakfast
Free breakfast Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 22 April 2018 Today we only had one of our morning services, the earlier traditional one. The second service, the contemporary music one, made way for the APCM, the Annual Parochial Church Meeting. I attended both. I will not be commenting on the content of the meeting other …
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.
Wise men?
They were right to do what hey did, these wise men, To go to see Herod in Jerusalem. That is where kings lived, so if you wanted to find the child born King of the Jews you would be wise if the first place you went was to the palace of the capital of Judea, where the King of the Jews lived. Even if the King of the Jews was someone like Herod.
Father of the groom
On Saturday 15th October my son Matthew married Lois Cameron. A good service, as they met through their church, The Ark, Huddersfield, and the service was at ours, Holy Trinity Huddersfield, there were a lot of people there who knew about how to sing in church, a good noise. And the reception was good too. The …
Goodbye social cycling
(sorry about the self-pity) Well I tried. I tried riding with Huddersfield's Cyclist Touring Club (or should that be Cycling UK, they've re-branded) and I have failed. Failed to keep up. Failed to enjoy the ride. Since the diagnosis with type 2 diabetes I have found the nausea that builds up through this level of exercise …
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 …
Last prayers
Today was my last day reading the intercessions in church. At least the last for now. All our rotas come to an end in two weeks time. We are moving on to having two Sunday morning services, one more traditional with organ music at 9am and one less traditional with a worship band (guitars, drums …
Making an ass of myself 