Adullamite

Every so often I take to writing, but I never get far. Recently I had an idea for a short story. I began to scribble the main idea, some o...

Went for a little jaunt this morning. First time in years I was in the mood to cycle. The sun was up, the wind a bit chilly, coming from t...

History is, after reading, writing and arithmetic, the most important subject to learn. Not only does it teach us what went before, but tel...

The Self is the centre of the world. That place deep within us that only we know, and sometimes that is the place we do not wish to know. D...

How come I am always tired? I thought it was just work, it's too physical, and being on my feet or using a bike all day is wearing me ou...

The highlight on Friday was the six year old who came out to me from number 9 and gave me a Cadbury's Easter Egg. One of the famous li...

I can never get over the difficulty of explaining God to people. In times past it was accepted that some believed and others didn't rea...

Royal Mail bikes as you know are old, but stout beasts. On the front they have that nice little basket to hold the huge bag of mail the pos...

The colours of Spring stood out today. Daffodils aplenty have opened and their yellow heads brightened up many a garden. Alongside were de...

One of the joys of starting work at four thirty in the morning is the sounds of Spring. Dark it may be, with the stars, and occasional plane...

WoooooooooooHoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Nae bother at all eh? I was never worried! Four goals to nil against the 'young...

Just about an hour to go. I have not got SKY so I will not see it, unless I cvan find it on the web. The Hearts World option may be the only...

The tension mounts. Now we know that our opponents in the final will be Gretna, the up and coming team from the lower leagues. Surely we oug...

Just finished this book by Kathleen M Kenyon, its a review of the dig in Jerusalem in the years 1961-67. This book was published in 1974, bo...

You can tell it's Springtime. Folks everywhere are running around complaining that it's cold, that it's wet, there is snow falli...

At least Dubya has made an attempt to do something about a Christian man threatened with death in a country his, and our, troops and giving ...

"41-year-old Abdul Rahman was arrested last month after his family accused him of becoming a Christian, Judge Ansarullah Mawlavezada to...

Things they say. When watching the news on TV, the announcer speaks of war and rumours of war, of death and destruction, earthquakes and vio...

When I landed here ten years ago I was informed that this was the driest county in England. Note, that is England, and not the UK as a whole...

First, buy glasses. The old pair are of course broken by being dropped carelessly on a hard floor. Take a trip to the cheape...er best optic...