So I realised this evening that Church is a little like Family (ok, I am aware this is so not a new metaphor but I am referring to just one aspect here). You might really dislike something about your family, complain about it or them continuously, wish it was different, make sarcastic comments about that…
You probably remember the story of my dramatic conversion to mushrooms and consequent life-altering addiction to them. Well, on Saturday my love reached a new heavenly level at this restaurant in the St Gilles area of Brussels. Recommended to me by someone who I have now discovered has not actually been yet (pick up the…
I am at the office late, hoping to catch some friends online to skype. And there is someone outside in the empty darkness that is the European Quarter after 7pm… …playing the bagpipes. it sounds entirely out of place but so very wonderful. i miss scotland.
A lot of my friends don’t really get the “blog” thing. Probably if you are reading this you at least get it enough to want to read the random musings I write every so often. But the idea that I read other blogs, mostly of people I do not know and have never met?! Yeah,…
Jen and I have been carrying out a relentless, sneaky and committed campaign to persuade my parents to get a dog. No dog could replace Rory of course. That crazy, neurotic, consistently stupid sheepdog that came suddenly into our lives one year and proceeded to shed black hair all over the cream carpet for the…
I remember making new years resolutions last year, but I don’t actually remember them all. They are scrawled on a scrap of paper that is probably in the big box full of scraps of paper under my bed. I know one of them was to write at least one snail mail letter a week, in…