Archive for the ‘Diary (ish)’ Category

Natural remedy (not)

Our office seems to be some kind of paradise for spiders.  Big spindly ones, little weedy ones, huge chunky ones that have genuine mass – they all seem to love it.  They’re also dead keen on the (outside) loo. Now, I’m not a total wuss when it comes to our eight-legged friends, but I’m a […]

The day I did The Talk

Background So there I am, quite content to lead the odd reflective service, when all of a sudden we discover there’s no-one around to do the talky bit for one of them.  No problem, how hard can it be, right? Armed with a fairly clear idea of what I should talk about, I set out […]

Friends

This is neither profound nor insightful, but friends are a good thing, and spending time with them doubly so.

Restraint

Of all the potential problems and pitfalls of “friending” youngsters on Facebook  – concerns over child protection, possible accusations of inappropriate whateverness, having to watch what you post if you’re prone to posting things that might be deemed inappropriate and all that jazz – who’d have thought that the single biggest issue would be continually […]

The things they do

Today I have mostly been cleaning up a friend’s PC.