Digging a lot http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot Sundry musings and gobbets from the web and from the head of an ordained minister and occasional human being ... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:25:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s Friday- man you have far too much music… DANNY SAUL - Harsh, Final image

I do….I confess I do. As I write this I am looking at a shelf that I put in the study for ‘things I am listening to’. It is full, double stacked and overflowing. Downstairs is a large CD…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3502 The continuing adventures of a slide into heresy…

The Welcome Wagon ‘Deep were his wounds and red’

Bruce Springsteen ‘Reason to Believe’

The Prodigy ‘Invaders must die’

…all played next to each other on random shuffle. So, so wrong and yet at the same time so right.…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3497 An i-pod!

When the crumbs fall from the table in a community like the one I live in, they are pretty big crumbs….

A long Friday ‘teatime’ in the pub and we were talking over a range of issues from the…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3495 I can vote- but I don’t know who for!

(The cast for ’Reservoir Dogs: the musical’ is finally announced)

A few days ago I recieved a voting form for the Labour leadership contest.

I had no idea I was entitled to vote, but then I realised that I was…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3492 The shorts come off

(I did think of showing a picture of me in shorts, although I thought the www was not quite ready for that)

Whatever the weather, in summer I always wear shorts.

Sometimes it is an act of defiance: ‘It…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3489 A prayer I’m using this today: ‘cos I like it. And because I am increasingly becoming alienated from the consumerist way that we approach faith.

Why are we here?

We are not here to “do a bunk” from…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3487 This is my favourite place on earth Every year, we make a kind of pilgrimage back to a place we left 6 years ago: Colwyn Bay.

 We only lived there for 5 years, but the place has a ‘pull’ on us that we can never quite shake.…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3480 It’s Friday: it’s music time Together Through Life [2CD + DVD]

I don’t spend all my time and income buying music; maybe around 91% of it, but that is all.

So I’m in North Wales, and the good friend we are staying with has managed to entice my two children…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3477 Connections

This holiday has bought manyconnections with lots of friends. I’m really grateful about that. Much as I bang on about desiring some stability in income or settled accomodation what really gives me energy is connections and good friendships. I’ve…

]]> http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=3473 It’s Jack Hobbs day! John Berry Hobbs

If you saw ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, you will have seen that one of the final questions in that great film was to name the highest first class run scorer. I managed it within micro seconds. The answer was of course,…

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