nukelearfishing – the random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and discover God in the ordinary.

This pome (sic) emerged from my imagination too late to be included in my book of pomes but it feels important to release it into the wild. It’s called ‘just like a child’ “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me …” (Jesus) You are welcome because you are wriggly, giggly,…

When I am performing magical illusions I sometimes need a small envelope in which to put a playing card so that it’s hidden from sight and to reassure my audience that I can’t get to it to do any sneaky stuff. You can buy envelopes which are the right size. But the cheap ones look,…

In three weeks’ time I will be finishing my sabbatical leave and resuming actively being the minister of Mutley Baptist Church – I can’t wait. I have missed everyone so much, and I have missed what I do to serve this wonderful church of people. Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed having sabbatical leave…

This is a brief follow-up to yesterday’s excited bloggage. The book arrived and looks good. I’ve now confirmed it’s ready to go and it’s awaiting approval from the online publisher. This is me with the proof (title still concealed to increase the suspense!) I hope the approval is not based on the quality of the…

As part of my sabbatical leave (just under one month to go) I have been writing again. The increased flow of bloggages that you have been enjoying / enduring (delete as appropriate) is part of that. I am also working again on a novel that I started a loooong time ago. And I have been…

We had a little rain today. Ordinarily it would not have been worth mentioning as it was nothing more than a brief, heavy shower. But in the context of the heatwave we’ve been enduring in UK at the moment it was extremely welcome. I could almost hear the arid, parched soil slurping up the rain…

Many years ago someone from the church I used to serve invited me to play golf with him. Other than crazy golf and the occasional ‘pitch and putt’ with my family I had not really played golf before but I thought I would give it a try as he said I could borrow his old…

We live in an increasingly interconnected world, don’t we? Smart devices in homes talk to one another and to us and are becoming increasingly conversational – reminding me of the happy toaster in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I have even heard of fridges that can order food for you because their cameras inside…

What you mostly find on the pages of my blog are my thoughts, my reflections, my musings. This is first and foremost a space where I can process things that I think, where I can imagine things that may be, where I can follow feral ideas down rabbit holes and see what I find. And…

Regulars among you will know that one of my interests is performing magic illusions*. I started over 30 years ago, buying a handful of illusions that I thought might be useful in my work as a youth minister, and I discovered an aptitude for it. Now I have a wide repertoire of illusions and put…