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)
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Two little ducks
That’s how Bingo callers in the UK announce that number 22 has been chosen. The reason is that if you squint and look through your fingers the number 2 resembles a duck swimming in the water. I don’t see it, really: to me it looks more like a swan! But tradition has it that they are two…
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secrecy
I have some exciting, wonder-full news That I’m bursting to tell someone. But I am sworn to secrecy and It’s eating me up inside. It’s incredible news – like receiving a letter saying I’m being awarded an OBE or a Knighthood – Yet better than that, so much bigger than that, And I can’t tell…
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taking over the festival
“He’s taken over the true meaning of the festival, hasn’t he? Suddenly the bearded one from ‘Up North’ is threatening to become the iconic figure for the season, replacing our religious imagery and themes that have echoed through millennia.” “Everywhere you go people are talking about him. They talk about the gifts he gives people.…
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health and safety gone mad
Dear Sir You currently are licensed as the owner of the hotel known as “The King’s Head”. It has come to our attention that you are no longer compliant with the terms of your business licence regarding the provision of adequate parking, that you have failed to apply for a ‘change of business use’ permit for your…
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no way!
According to the stats for this blog there are almost 1300 of you who are registered as followers of my bloggages. REALLY?? no way! And adding together the number of visits to the site that hosted this blog before I landed in WordPressland, there have been almost 100,000 visits since I started inflicting my bloggerel on an…
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advent haiku* poem
one Word has fulfilled hopes and fears of all the years: Anticipation Be blessed, be a blessing *Traditional Haiku poems have 17 syllables in groups of 5, 7, 5
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sweet…
Is it just me, or is ‘Twinkle Twinkle little star’ putting in a lot of appearances in children’s nativity plays? I think it’s because it’s a rhyme that little children know and it probably also provides a good number of additional parts for children (as twinkling stars) – you can only have so many sheep…
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glow in the dark (day 15)
Facebook friends of mine may already have seen this picture. It’s of our new Christmas lights. We wanted to be festive and decorate the front of our house while at the same time not wanting to go overboard, not wanting to fill the garden with flashing Santas*, light-up reindeer, snowmen, and so on. We wanted…
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o come o come Immanuel
(This bloggage was sent around the EBA Ministers as a ‘Thought for the week’ last week.) This is the time of year when we sing the Advent carol ‘O come, O come Immanuel’. The words are lovely, helping us capture a sense of the mind-set of those who were waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for…
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caption
Apparently thirteen is supposed to be unlucky because there were thirteen people at the Last Supper – Jesus’ last meal before his arrest, trial and execution (people tend to forget the resurrection bit). But did you know that beneath the fresco of the Last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci there used to be a…
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