Creativity, curiosity, and code
Possibly not for the arachnophobic. Some action shots of the fat spider building a web. The sun was shining down and making the web glisten so I thought I’d try and catch it on, err, well not film exactly, but you know what I mean. The reason I’m a bit fanatical about spiders is that…well…they’re […]
This book was recommended as a good read on prayer but didn’t live up to expectations. Before I wrote these notes on it I did some searching and it’s hard to find a bad review of the book. And I have to say that, despite the slow start to it, the book did grow on […]
A while ago I mentioned that we’d had an offer accepted on a house! A quick update is due. The process has been moving along quite well. We stalled a bit while we chose a mortgage but that’s applied for, the legal stuff has all moved along as it should, the survey is now done, […]
I don’t remember being ill much as a kid, teenager, or even in my early working years. But that all seems to have changed lately. The last two weeks, since getting back from Greenbelt, have been one physical problem after another. Starting with what appeared to be food poisoning or a stomach bug of some […]
I like spiders! Which is just as well as there’s about a million in our garden. Probably mostly the grown up babies that I spotted back in the spring. I just liked this one because it used to be quite a skinny spider but she (we think it’s a she) has put her web in […]
I’ve been off sick the last few days, sleeping, resting, and taking my mind off my churning stomach by both reading and writing. One result of which is that, after about 6 months of on-and-off reading, I’ve finally finished a book! The Eyre Affair is a cleverly comic, extremely eccentric romp through time space and […]
I’d like to post a link to this article about Charity and Justice. Relevant Magazine doesn’t always hit the mark (more below) but this article explains an important difference between what the author calls “charity” (giving to help people in need) and “justice” (trying to fix the things that make charity needed). It’s worth reading, […]
Last weekend was my first outing to the festival known as “Greenbelt”. In fact, it was my first real festival outing anywhere. Greenbelt is a music and arts festival. But it needs a little bit more categorisation than that. I shall explain. A note on sub-cultures Now, I’m always careful about talking about “Christian” stuff […]
A friend of mine used to keep notes on books she had read and films she had seen. I hope to occasionally jot down what I think of books, films, maybe music here. Not reviews, but reminders to me of what the thing was about and what I thought of it. I’ve just finished reading […]
The rain is back, and so I’m once again faced, upon entering my workplace, with the statement “Surely you didn’t cycle in today!” I do sometimes question my own sanity, and I ask myself how I would respond if someone asked me why I did it. I reckon I could get between 10 and 20 […]