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Month: Feb 2011

  • should have gone to [a certain brand of opticians whose name I will not use as I am not being paid for advertising on this blog, but now you are thinking of them so I have failed in trying not to mention them]

    I have just come back from an eye test. I can remember the days when you just had to look at some letters on the wall and the optician would shine a torch in your eyes to have a quick look. Today’s experience was a high-tech equivalent of a medieval torture! I had air puffed…

  • Disciple: baffled, but willing to be led

    Hello again bloggists. I have returned to the blogcave and am ready to release more random thoughts into the wild. not actually chairs at the conference venue – these look more comfortable! I have been at the Eastern Baptist Association Ministers’ Conference. It was a real blessing. We were fed well physically (cooked breakfasts are…

  • prioritising priorities

    I can remember a lecture at the Vicar Factory where I trained (the awesome Spurgeon’s College if you are interested). That statement may surprise you for two reasons: one is that I can remember a lecture, the second is that I actually am trained. Anyhoo… the lecture was in my final year when we were…

  • palindromes

    Another sign that I am getting older. I was sure I was 45 until a friend wished me a happy palindromic birthday. Took me a while to work out that 2011 – 1967 = 44. D’oh! Campus motto: Bottoms up Mac Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena,…

  • getting older

    Yesterday I was leading a devotional thought for the folk who come to our lunch club for the elderly. I was going to begin with a few jokes about getting older: The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. Bob Hope: “She said she was approaching forty – I…

  • intro-speck-tion

    My eye is irritated at the moment. I usually wear contact lenses and it feels like there is a tiny bit of grit or something else under the lens. The contact lens-wearers out there will be empathising with me right now. Those of you who don’t wear them can’t really understand. It was quite funny, therefore,…

  • out of our depth?

    “Don’t go out of your depth!” I can still vividly remember that repeated injunction from my parents when we went to the swimming pool or the beach. The rule was that I was always supposed to be able to put my feet down on the bottom of the pool or the sea bed and still be…

  • you drink your coffee, I sip my tea…*

    I like coffee. That statement will not be a surprise to anyone who knows me. I don’t like tea. That is a lesser-known fact about me. My wife, Sally, likes tea. She does not like coffee. I think that this means we are ideally-suited in our beverage consumption as it means we can each choose…

  • Be my valentine?

    St Valentine’s Day could be a celebration of love, a reminder to express appreciation for others and a moment to be blessed and be a blessing. I fear it is becoming an opportunity for the exploitation of couples by commercial pressures, an excuse to sell more cards, flowers and chocolates and an occasion that exacerbates…

  • Our God is a great big God…

    Incredibly busy day today, so not much time to blog. A quick thought and a quick joke… How big is your vision of God: can it get any bigger? thinking of expansion… (sorry!) If not, it’s too small. If it can, ask him to expand it. Don’t settle for less! This is a story about…