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green fingers

Everyone has pet hates about things right?  With homes that you share with others it can be particular habits of other occupants that are at the top of the list.  Fortunately for me, at my current house that is not a problem - my housemates are all lovely.  Instead it is the garden and oven [...]

April 19th, 2009 | Category: happenings | 2 comments

Foghorn response

In today’s Guardian was a response to a comment article I discussed a couple of weeks ago.
Loud but not clear is clearly from the moderate atheist camp and isn’t anything surprising - worth a read if only for encouragement about where the atheist camp could head to.

April 14th, 2009 | Category: happenings | Leave a comment

A month of blogging

I’ve really enjoyed the last ‘month of blogging’.  I originally set out to blog every day for lent.  In reality I managed roughly half a blog a day, which I still think is pretty good.  So what have I learned and confirmed from the experience?
Writing on a blog takes time and discipline.  With a full [...]

April 12th, 2009 | Category: happenings | Leave a comment

Are we human?

On the latest Killer’s album (Day and Night) Brandon Flowers asks “are we human or are we dancer[s]“?  I really like this - for me is probing what it is to be human, maybe touching on our spirituality, primal desire and recent lust for knowledge.
People seem to be able to relate.
I expect that maybe 99% [...]

April 11th, 2009 | Category: longer thoughts, musings, thoughts | Leave a comment

At frickin’ last!

It’s been a long time coming.  Sometime in the last couple of days I picked up a new fifty pence coin.  If I knew where I’d go back and kiss the shop assistant.  I now present the completed UK coin set blu-tac’d to my desk:

It seems that it is the cumulative effect of small things [...]

April 10th, 2009 | Category: musings, photography | Leave a comment
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