The 30-something shift
“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?” The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald Start running. Start dancing. Start […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
Now playing: John Grant – GMF (ft Sinead O’Connor)
Loving this as a reprieve to Daft Punk at the moment. (Don’t listen if you don’t like the F-word.)
Is it God’s job to find you a spouse?
Last week, the Independent reported the results of a survey published by online dating site, Christian Connection. The survey of more than 2,700 churchgoing singles found that they feel lonely […]
Telling tales
Lately I’ve begun wondering if I’m a shameless exhibitionist. Let me start at the beginning. For the past few months I seem to have done a lot of public speaking. […]
Grasp the nettle
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” Attrib. to Goethe “Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And […]
Now playing: Daft Punk Get Lucky
Johanna Derry on Burning Buildings
Reblogged from God 52: In our first guest post on this week’s challenge topic of Simplicity, journalist Johanna Derry explains how the 2011 London riots caused her to reflect on […]
The Philpotts
Last week Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead were convicted of manslaughter. They set their house on fire in a warped attempt to regain custody of some of Mick’s children […]
Class
I wrote a few days ago, that one of the cultural definitions of the Brits is that old rivalries die hard. I was talking about geographical differences, but another one […]
First and only
Margaret Thatcher. Could two words and one name evoke more emotion in the British people? I was born a few months after she won the general election in 1979. Because […]
