I have long known of the Half Your Age Plus Seven rule, otherwise known as the Standard Creepiness Rule.  It is expressed mathematically below, and basically says that anyone you date should be at least half your age plus seven.


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I recently told my Sunday School class the story of Cain and Abel - how both brothers offered sacrifices to God, yet God was only pleased with Abel's, which enraged Cain so much that he took Abel for a walk in the fields and promptly killed him ( Read more... )

So Aaron and I have had this bushwalk to Cape Pillar planned for a while.  I was a little hesitant, due to the weather - it's been insanely cold, the mountain is covered with snow, rain every day, the Midlands Highway closed - but a quick canvas of opinion convinced me that it would be a fun adventure.  Plus, according to Aaron himself, he has an ( Read more... )

I went to the supermarket this evening and the guy at the checkout criticised my purchases.  He felt that I ought to be buying the ingredients to make fresh cheese & spinach rolls, rather than buying the pre-made, frozen variety.

Results: two credits.  71%, 72%.  Not stoked.  Not really that happy even.

I went down to the jetty this morning.  The water was glassy and dark: no ripples, no light, no sound.  The sun rose over the Eastern Shore, a fiery orange-rose-pink, flamed into the clouds and melted onto the water.  I tried to paddle into it - the fiery water - but it was like chasing a rainbow's end.  The nose of my kayak remained just outside ( Read more... )

I am having a good day, "working" from home.  I use inverted commas for working not because I am meant to be working and not, but because I am working on all sorts of things, in all sorts of ways: some church stuff (for my job and also not for my job), some catch up time with people (online and off), some exercise, some buying of needed goods ( Read more... )

I have been wondering about the line between faith and stupidity.

God is faithful to provide ... but what will He provide?  All our needs?  Who decides what we need?

But if we have food and clothing, we will be content - 1 Tim 6:8

Except I want more ... I want bike lights and Nutrigrain and rock climbing shoes, take-away Indian food and dental cover ( Read more... )

I was home alone last night, studying, when there was a knock at the door.  I opened it to find a lady, perhaps in her fifties, who introduced herself as Kirsten.  She said she was neighbour of ours, who also rented from Judith, our landlady ( Read more... )

I'm meant to be reading about miracles, but I seem to have wandered, via Wikipedia, into a Catholic website that gives me the text of The Arabic Gospel of Infancy, which is a sixth century Syrian text recounting various (supposed) events in the life of Jesus and his family.  One of these tells how, as Joseph went about town as a carpenter, he would ( Read more... )