There’s a short article in this week’s Church Times about vicar’s who blog, or rather how few there are. This got me to thinking that I should blog with pride – the only reservation I have is that if anyone finds my blog and chooses to wander back in time, they’ll find a whole load […]

Had a couple of programming discoveries at work in the last week or so. The first is Dev-C++, a free IDE for Windows. I’ve got Visual Studio as well, but this seems like a really good environment (not least of which because it’s free). The second discovery was Simple DirectMedia Layer (or libSDL) – a […]

As shown by the sudden leap in the number of reviews, I’m enourmously enjoying my easyDVD membership. When the little orange envelope flops onto the letterbox, and I tear it open to see what the title is, and Yes it’s a film I’ve been wanting to see for ages. Of course a millisecond’s thought shows […]

Oh happy day – parliament have voted to ban all indoor smoking. At long last I’ll be able to go out to pubs and restauants without having my evening spoilt by second-hand smoke, and I can come home without my clothes and hair stinking of burnt tobacco. I have the tiniest slither of sympathy for […]

I actually love this time of year – yes it’s rainy and cold still, but every morning it’s just a little bit brighter in the morning, and you can’t help feeling the overall thrust the weather is taking is towards warmth and sunshine once more. This morning, as I walked to the station, I wouldn’t […]

I think I’ve found a good test of vocation/calling; You know you’ve found your vocation when you genuinely feel sad for people who can’t/won’t do that thing. So, take preaching, or even lecturing. I absolutely love doing it, and I do feel really sorry for people who say “oh I’d hate it.” I feel like […]

Witnessed a very humourous exchange between a project student and his supervisor yesterday… End of a 45 minute project meeting. Supervisor: So, do you think you ought to make some notes? Student: No, I’ll remember everything we talked about. Supervisor: Tell you what – you humour me by writing down what we agreed. Student: OK. […]

So the exciting news is that I’ve been recommended for training for ordination in the Church of England. It is probably possible to deduce this from the last few entries, but I didn’t want to come out with it until our friends, families and work-places had been told! If all goes to plan I’ll start […]

Well, it arrived – as I was halfway along the M42, as it happens! It was excellent news, which I am greatly looking forward to writing all about in the not too distant future. But not tonight.

I’m expecting an important phone call in the next 24 hours or so, but I don’t know exactly when it’s going to come. I’d forgotten what the anticipation of waiting for a phone call is like – I remember when A. and I were courting, and for about half an hour before the time we […]