nukelearfishing

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.

(These musings don’t necessarily represent the views of the church I serve)

  • Where’s Jesus?

    When I was in hospital my dad and my sister came all the way to London from South Devon to see me. I was so blessed just by that, but they also brought goodies to keep me sane and sweets to sustain me in the absence of decent food in the hospital. Among the goodies…

  • reacting to Rooney reacting to the fans – but not just a blog about football

    “Nice to hear your home fans booing you – that’s loyal supporters,” was how England’s Wayne Rooney reacted to hearing boos from the England supporters following a very poor England performance against Algeria. I can understand how he felt. The team did not play well. Individuals played badly. He was obviously very disappointed with what…

  • I say!

    I had a surprise earlier this week when there was the sound of struggling from our front door (or to be more precise, from someone outside the front door, not the door itself) and then there was a loud ‘thunk’. It was our postlady pushing a package from Amazon through our letterbox. It was just…

  • spoilers

    This morning I watched a film we had recorded in anticipation of my convalescence period. It was a good film, although I was a bit miffed to discover that I had correctly anticipated the plot before it had fully unfolded, including the twist and the kicker at the end. I still enjoyed the film (The Illusionist, with…

  • caring for the community

    If you are squeamish you may want to skip to the next paragraph. No, not this one, the one below! I went to my Doctor’s surgery yesterday afternoon where one of the Practice Nurses used a clever little tool to remove 32 staples from me. I was surprised that there were so many and that…

  • commenting on commentators

    I have been listening to commentaries on World Cup matches (just about audible above the vuvuzelas) and am impressed by the ability of the commentators to identify the different players from around the world and (attempts to) pronounce their names. They must spend a long time practicing and seem to work on the same basis that…

  • listen

    As I sit here I can hear birds outside tweeting their little hearts out. I hear the gentle rumble of a car lazily making its way along the road. I can hear the fan on my computer as it tries hard to cool the processors and other gizmos that make the system work. And that’s it.…

  • we all make mistakes

    What is it about English mentality that we concentrate on people’s mistakes rather than successes? Last night the English goalkeeper made a mistake and let in a goal which meant that England drew 1-1 with USA. The TV coverage then replayed the error time and time again, with the commentators making stupid references to the…

  • some novel thoughts

    How long is a novel? You may think that this is as pointless a question as ‘How long is a piece of string?’ but the answers are quite interesting. It seems (from my extensive research via Google) that a book has to have at least 40,000 words before a publisher thinks it is worth publishing. From…

  • you are eminently suitable

    I have just watched the first of four DVDs that Sally got for me from Blockbuster (£10 for 4 films for 4 nights – not bad!). It was The Men Who Stare At Goats. If you have not seen it I won’t spoil it by telling you about it, save that I found it hilarious that…