Notes

How did I spend my last week off? Not as might have been expected.

The dominant feature was the arrival of a 15-month old girl to stay for a couple of weeks. When you’ve not changed a nappy for years, the re-introduction of nappies, changing bags, high-chairs, car-seats and all the rest is very weird [...]

So, here I am in Week 14 in Unemployment House just 10 days away from starting my new job.

A number of people have asked me if I’m climbing the walls with boredom or if I’ve been worried about not finding another job. I determined right at the start that I’d enjoy this time off. I’ve [...]

This is a beautiful video telling a very scary story…

Every January I give thought to whether or not to start a read-the-Bible-in-a-year reading plan. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.

It’s interesting taking a look on whether people think Christians even should:

Most people agree that all Christians should read their Bible every day
Some feel that slavishly working through the boring bits will have no lasting [...]

Julia has just completed a spell in retail and it was remarkable how similar the issues she faced were to those I’ve seen in call centres.

Things that “could have gone better”:

Being given a name badge with someone else’s name on it. “You’re only a temp so it’s not worth getting a new badge made.”
“Coaching sessions” [...]

This was a Christmas present from our youngest. I haven’t opened it yet - I like the packaging too much!

I took the dogs for a walk today at Moreton shore. Yesterday we’d noticed that the ducks were coming towards us hoping for bread, so today I took some along.

The pond was almost totally frozen over with just a small gap where the ducks were swimming. I threw all the bread onto the ice (much [...]

Playing Christmas Carols on guitar is a bit of a nightmare. Like most old hymns, they just don’t lend themselves to guitar accompaniment.

Our church is planning on singing carols in Hoylake on Saturday but we’ll need to use the guitar. I searched the net and couldn’t really find what I was looking for - [...]

For some reason, I’ve found myself asked this question twice in 3 days by quite different people. The question is very important: Some women feel drawn to study to teach others - is this wrong? What about women missionaries - surely they need to preach at some time? Can’t women take on the same roles [...]

Week 5 in unemployment house begins with an unforseen situation: Julia is starting work while I’m at home as a house-husband.

Short-term, part-time work at M&S might not be enough to “keep” me, but it’s an interesting turn of events nonetheless.

It’s interesting to me to see just how many jobs are available given the amount of [...]