My day off from church: cycling, coffee and cats On Sundays I usually attend church and on Mondays blog about it, good or bad. This week I had a Sunday off. The reason was this: The start and the finish of the final day of the Tour de Yorkshire, starting from the picturesque setting …
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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 January 2013 Le Tour de Yorkshire This is about the Tour de France Grand Départ in Leeds. The Tour …
I haven't posted in a while, life happened, or more directly watching sport happened. On Sunday 6th July the slopes of Holme Moss was something to see. Thousands were on the slopes of the hill, and it was an entertainment in itself watching others arrive. A woman dressed as a banana was jogging up the …
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Church is irrelevant in today's society. So they tell me, and so it would seem, until a catastrophe happens. Yesterday in Leeds a school a teacher was murdered in the classroom. Today the school was still open, but there was a service at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church. But yesterday evening, according to a report …
That is the number of churches I see on my commute. (Yes I was bored, you have to find something to do on the daily train ride.) And that is just what I see on the train from Huddersfield to Leeds plus the three on the bus ride into town. There could be more, those …
In the centre of Leeds, right by the railway station is the Queens Hotel. In the Queens Hotel is the Queens bar. In the Queens Bar are chandeliers. And they serve cream tea. It is a little oasis of calm in among the bustle. Leeds on a Saturday afternoon is full of people shopping, that's …
Yes, not a typo. It's all about Leeds, the former capital of the Celtic kingdom of Elmet. I took the short train ride to there on Thursday. The humans dined at Lock Fyne and ate fish. Fish, why? What's wrong with hay and some carrots? The human has blogged about it. The restaurant is in …
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 …
Making an ass of myself 