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)

  • fashion advice from my socks

    Yes, I have started to take fashion advice from my socks. Before you invite the men in white coats to come around let me explain. When my wife, Sally, is around I will sometimes invite her to tell me if, for example, my tie goes with my shirt or a shirt is okay with my…

  • notice the astro-naughts*

    I have just looked at my computer keyboard and noticed that there is an area on the space bar which has worn much more than the rest of it, and indeed is much more worn than any of the other keys. Hopefully you can see what I mean from the photo here. There is a…

  • maintaining your balance

    Yesterday I blogged about my response to the ice bucket challenge and my desire not to be ostentatious in the way that I give to charity. Subsequently I realised that in writing that I don’t want to be ostentatious and then posting it on t’internet I have been ostentatious. D’oh! And then this morning in…

  • the Baptist who refused to get wet

    Yesterday I was challenged to tip a bucket of icy water over my head and give some money to charity. If I am honest I am surprised that it took people that long to nominate me. The person who challenged me also included a sensitive ‘this is optional’ clause and I sensitively opted out. That…

  • lasting first impressions

    So, on the last wet (very wet) Bank Holiday I decided to revisit some of my old magic tricks. It’s always worth rehearsing the tricks and the performance of them. As I started I recalled a trick that I had bought a while ago when I was given some vouchers for one of the online…

  • Eeekmail

    So today I resume my duties and also end my cyber fast. I have 400+ emails waiting for me. That’s a lot of e-correspondence to deal with. When correspondence was only delivered by post men, post women or pigeons there would not have been 400 letters waiting for me after 2 weeks away. I’d never…

  • inspirational

    As I said in Friday’s bloggage I am reading a lot about Leonard Cheshire at the moment. It’s inspirational stuff, and I am only about a quarter of the way through his life in his biography. I am also inspired by the people I know who work consistently and unnoticed behind the scenes to make…

  • it starts with desire

    None of us is perfect. Nobody, no matter how great they are or what they have achieved, is the finished article. I am being inspired at the moment by reading about Group Captain Lord Cheshire of Woodhall, VC, OM, DSO, DFC. By any measure he was an astonishing man as all of his titles and…

  • con sequences

    Over the past couple of months in our morning services we have been looking at the Lord’s Prayer. That’s the one that we used to say in school assemblies at Primary School (it was a church school) and where we knew the rhythm better than the words; the one that we say at weddings and funerals…

  • freaking out a parent

    I had a slightly freaky moment yesterday. I was in the town centre (where our church is located) and walking along, minding my own business, when I heard a small voice enthusiastically say, “Hello!” I looked down and there was a girl, probably about 7 years old, grinning and waving at me… Immediately her horrified…