This morning on the first Sunday of the new year we celebrated a service of renewal of our covenant with God, usually just called "the Covenant service". In Methodism it goes back to the time of John Wesley when he freely adopted a form of service used by Puritan Anglicans, and he decreed it should be used annually by his societies (religious sub ( Read more... )

You could call it madness but if it was it was a nice madness...the family wanted to gather in the parental home because it was judged big enough to take us all and because no one, ourselves included, has any idea as to where we shall be living this time next year. When we agreed to the venture, way back we had no idea that L would be in recovery ( Read more... )

I wasn't sure why anyone should want to watch a program on the blitz, but tonight's program was about London's East End and I suppose I wanted to see what understanding it might give me of my mother's accounts of fire watching,of listening for the sound of aircraft, the British and German planes sounded different having different kinds of engines, ( Read more... )

How did it happen, that the General Election finished as it did ( Read more... )

Not so cold this morning (9C) but the visibility is awful.The whole world seems dark and gloomy and when I look beyond the garden it is shrouded in mist. Within the garden, attempting to watch the birds, I can see the washing line resonantly vibrating- something has landed but can I see what? I can hear songs and calls-wood pigeon and great tit are ( Read more... )

Its four fifteen .It's more or less daylight and beyond the window nothing stirs ( Read more... )

Don't know how long it will last but Hull City went top of the championship this afternoon. Blackburn's manager commented that the team included a number of Premiership players.... not so: all Hull's players play in the Championship at the moment ( Read more... )

Watched David Attenborough's latest offering on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. What an absolute pleasure it was to watch ( Read more... )

Just watched the BBC2 programme about the launch of a Russian rocket to land a crew of three on the ISS (International Space Station) Truly inspiring.Not the technical achievement, though that was gobsmacking enough. Not the progress in all sorts of ways since Helen Sharman the first Brit in space back in 1991, although it ( Read more... )

I remember the days when I used to use LJ to relieve my feelings about the bad driving I used to see travelling to Newcastle and back to visit T.Not done a post like that for a bit, possibly because at the moment I am not driving at all. DVLA have told me that the equipment that was used to do the eyesight tests that resulted in my having my ( Read more... )