Sunday 9th March First a morning at church, then a walk into the town centre. As it was the second Sunday of the month Huddersfield has its up-market market, which is a lot less posh than it sounds, but there is always a good selection of pork pies and related things. the sausage barbecue was …
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God supports Labour.
That's what you would be forgiven for believing if you have been reading some of this week's papers. Now I am sure that if you look around the churches you will find supporters of the Labour Party. As well as the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIP. Possibly some others. But that is not that …
Rhubarb all the way.
What would you think of a pork and rhubarb sausage? Or maybe a pork and rhubarb pie is more to your liking? Or a hamburger with rhubarb and orange chutney washed down with a rhubarb cider, or a rhubarb mojito, whilst looking at a flower arrangement made of tulips and rhubarb.? No this is not …
Anger Management
On Tuesday I visited the doctor. I was wanting to know what had happened to the anger management treatment I was supposed to be getting, things had stalled, it had been nearly a year since I last heard from anything, so it was time to get things kick started. The last I heard I was …
Mum
Mum has Alzheimer's. She has been diagnosed for around two years, and over that time we have been watching a slow deterioration in her memory. This has been particularly hard from Dad, who in his mid 80s has been flung into the role of carer. This is not a position which he easily fits into. …
The day the music died.
It's the end of an era. After twenty years of lunchtime jazz at the Head of Steam it has ended. Lunch on the last Sunday will not be the same. The pub has been taken over and the accountants have looked at the turnover. It looks like music is uneconomical. This sort of thing has …
Abandoned
I was abandoned this week. Twice. It started so well. The humans were celebrating, the male human was 60 years old, which as any donkey will tell you is seriously ancient. Well he would be on the Tuesday. But they started early. On the Friday they took me on an overnight trip to the Shibden …
Goodbye 2013
A retrospective. Goodbye 2013, I'll miss you. You were the year I started a job, in Leeds, after 7 months unemployment. You were the year I gained competency and sealed my year's contract. You were the year my contact was extended for a further six months. You were the year I took the risk of …
Happy New Year
This is how I spent the Christmas period, as a not to scale onlooker at the nativity. Looking to Jesus is a good place to be. Happy new year.
Little donkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Nni_dYORY Little donkey
