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Category: following Jesus

  • nobody expects

    I recognise that Monty Python’s Flying Circus is not everyone’s cup of tea, but they how many of you were expecting the Spanish Inquisition? Nobody? I thought that would be the case. Personally I find that sketch (you can see it on YouTube if you are prepared for some silliness) rather amusing, especially when coupled…

  • real puppets

    There are some things that shouldn’t work. Today I was listening to the Radio 2 Breakfast Show when Elmo came on. For the few of you who don’t know who Elmo is, he is a small red fluffy muppet from Sesame Street who speaks in the third person.  And Elmo was on the radio. It…

  • harumph!?

    In case you didn’t realise I was away at a conference for the first three days of this week. While I was there I was checking my emails when I saw an urgent message from someone who needed a relatively instant response from me that I was unable to deal with until I got home.…

  • under new management?

    So I went into the garage and asked the man, “Have you got a fuel cap for my Skoda?” And the man thought for a moment and said, “Sounds like a fair swap!” I wonder if you’ve come across that joke before? Skoda cars used to be the butt of jokes that were based on…

  • don’t try this at home

    This photo was taken a long time ago – in the days when I had hair (I know you can’t see it in the photo) and my waist was a lot slimmer (yes it was THAT long ago!). You can tell how long ago it was because I had a Gordon the Gopher puppet (in…

  • power to the people?

    In an era when we are all acutely conscious of the cost of gas and electricity, and Power Companies are replacing Banks as Public Enemy Number One in the media-led vilification stakes, two thoughts occur to me. One is to ask myself how I would feel if I was working for one of these institutions…

  • How …… are you?

    There seems to be a proliferation of quizzes on Facebook at the moment in which you can assess how much you belong to a particular region. They’re just a bit of fun. I am not having a go at them. But don’t they work on the basis of stereotypes? Don’t they assume that everyone from…

  • essentials

    So… the Baptist Union of Great Britain has a new logo. That’s bad news for Baptist Churches that have the old one embedded into their architecture! The old logo contained a cross, water and a fish. The new logo is explained in this diagram: (You have to recognise that the fish is swimming downwards). Oh…

  • scaling new heights

    So this morning we have really joined the digital age. Because of the large number of internet-connected devices in our home our broadband connection was running really slowly. There were various correlations but the most significant was that the speed of connection was inversely proportional to the waking hours of our teenage offspring. Hence the…

  • the end

    Today marks my last day ‘at work’ until almost the end of August. It also marks the last of my daily bloggages until then. This is not because I intend to stop reflecting but because I will not necessarily be within reach of a machine or internet connection with which to write the bloggerel that…