For anyone preparing to go to a Bishop’s Avisory Panel on Selection, I’ve got some top tips for helping the process go as smoothly as possible. This is not to do with ‘passing’ (see the second tip), but just some small things I either wished I knew, or was glad I did know! So, in […]
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.