Happy New Year! Looking back & looking forward. Historic England proudly announced the addition of two new Grade 2 listed buildings in Huddersfield in late 2024. That's two of just 17 awarded this last year. This is a wonderful achievement, and we have much to celebrate! The first is the place where I was born. …
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Lent — what I am doing and what I am giving up
Giving up sarcasm for Lent 40 blogs of Lent: Day 1 Coffee It is Lent, that traditional time for giving things up. I will probably be taking up sleeping for Lent, but this is a consequence, not part of the plan. What I am doing is giving up caffeine, and as someone who drinks americano …
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Lent, and what I’m doing with it
Blogging through Lent 40 blogs of Lent: day 1 Lent comes around again, a season where people traditionally give things up, but I will be instead taking things on. Extra blogging. As I have done in the last few years I will be blogging for the 40 fast days, this year will be on parts …
Matthew’s Gospel and getting things in order
The logical Gospel The Jewish Gospel Getting everything in order Matthew's Gospel is my favourite Gospel. It wasn't always so. At first, it was Luke, I was handed a free Gospel of Luke whilst at University from a member of the Christian Union. I still have a soft spot for Luke, as reading this book …
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What I’m blogging about in Advent
Advent blogs. In Advent, I will be blogging every day except Sundays. well, that's the plan anyway. I will be starting on a few blogs about the difference between God's values of the world, then, as Christmas gets closer, looking at the Christmas story as given in Matthew's Gospel. My thoughts on what happened in …
Looking back
Looking back 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 31 December 2012 2012 was an eventful year. Lost my job in May and spent the rest of …
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.
I’ve only gone and done it
I've done it Giving up working that is. That was at the end of August So now I have the time, why no blogs? It's because I retired early because I was exhausted. Not just tired, but thoroughly exhausted. So I have being reviewing everything, including whether to carry on blogging, and what to blog …
…and so it ends. (Almost)
Way back on Ash Wednesday I blogged that I was unlikely to blog 40 times during Lent due to the fatigue I was feeling at the time. Now I am more optimistic. With 7 days left and 7 blogs to go the target is in sight.
Closed blog…
The other blog I wrote, The adventures of Xote, has been closed and content merged with this blog. If you see some odd content when looking back through old blogs, that will be why. This diabetes has made me too tired to look after two blogs, so I merged them.
Making an ass of myself 