nukelearfishing

Category: fun

  • Now that’s what I call amusing

  • what will have you done today?

    What are you doing today? How much will you have achieved by the time your head hits the pillow? I wonder how you answer those questions? Do you answer them in terms of actions completed, to do lists diminished, tasks achieved? It’s good to be able to do that. I remember at the non-conformist vicar…

  • contagious infectiousness

    There are some things we do that are infectious. Some of them are involuntary. If you have ever tried to suppress a yawn you’ll know that it’s impossible. The yawn decides when it’s coming and there’s nothing you can do about it. But why is it that when you see someone else yawn (or suppress…

  • standing up

    Tonight the lovely Mrs Lear and I are going to a gig. (see picture) It’s a blend of comedy and rock music to support Crisis, but the main reason we are going is the headline act. Sally has been obsessed by Mr Weller since she first heard The Jam in the late 1970s. The first…

  • Jester minute

    I sometimes wonder if I am too frivolous. Not just with the bloggerel that I churn out, although I do feel somewhat lightweight compared to other more worthy and theologically profound blogs, but generally. I can often see something from a slightly different perspective that is at least humorous, if not funny. I like that. It helps…

  • I wish they’d taught me to…

    It is now over 15 years since I was ordained and I have discovered some deficiencies in my ministerial training. I would like to suggest that vicar factories include some or all of the following in their training programmes: “Excuse me” – how to suppress embarrassing body noises when visiting / in the pulpit. This…

  • wheeeeeeee

    While on holiday last week we went as a family to Alton Towers. Sally enjoyed a more sedate time than the rest of us, but she was happy ‘pootling’ around, holding bags and not being thrown around, turned upside down and facing near death experiences. Thomas, Hannah and I enjoyed the range of rollercoasters. We started…

  • >The Return of the Redeye

    >Take one large house on the Suffolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station. Add about 80 people of all ages. Allow to blend for about five days. Garnish with good weather, new friendships, exploration of the Bible, late night conversations, wide games and several people falling in the boating lake. Et voila!…