Today there has been almost nothing going on. We've seen episodes of Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother and Friends, and I've been catching up a little with The Archers and the goings-on in Ambridge. There has been a shock there, but I'm not game to spoil it here ( Read more... )

The first services of the year: I was leading the 9:30 service, which is the more traditional service. It was hard to get started, as there were so many notices related to the recent deaths in our congregation. I read out a letter from Lawrence, thanking us as a congregation for the support in recent weeks and on Friday at Kathryn's funeral. I also ( Read more... )

Did you miss me? I'm still on Facebook and you can find me on Twitter as @ringbark - I have been reading LJ almost every day ( Read more... )

Liverpool managed to throw away the lead with a penalty just before time, and managed to lose to Reading, near the bottom of the Championship, in extra time ( Read more... )

Well, I'd only just clicked "post" when they scored, right before the break.

Here's something I saw in the press yesterday...

A study says textspeak is stunting teenagers' vocabularies. This may be so, but failing to understand textspeak can be equally problematic. Many older people assume "LOL" stands for "Lots of Love"; in fact it's "[I'm] ( Read more... )

I shall continue from where I left off. Friday was a busy day at work, with only a few hours at Bankside before an afternoon back at Bishopsgate. As I walked along Bishopsgate at lunchtime, it started to snow again ( Read more... )

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Pretty snowy on Wednesday morning. A full turnout of boys at breakfast. It's possible that Matthew will have gone back to Lancaster before I get home tomorrow, but he's just as likely to stay till Saturday, especially with the dodgy weather at the moment ( Read more... )

Back to work on Monday morning. Viv joined me at breakfast, which wasn't a surprise, and the boys also joined me, which was. After that, Viv walked to the station with me and then I went off to the Bank ( Read more... )

I led the service at 9:30 thismorning. Dave preached from Luke 11 about prayer. Then home for alittle while, as the boys and I got ready for the trip south. Half past twelve and we were on our way to Bromborough Station on the way to Chester, Euston, Marylebone and Wembley for an uneventful trip. Once we had dropped our stuff off, it was back into ( Read more... )