Collected ponderings

Well I am still new to the idea of blogging and writing something greater than 140 characters at one time. Twitter is rather fun and in some ways useful, but it is quite a different beast to approach.


I will, over the next couple of days, post a couple of prayer letters I have have written over the year. I am aware that not everyone got them and it will be interesting for me to look back a it. These will be followed by a new prayer letter, which I will try to send to people who may not have got the previous. Anyway, enough of the future (it will come soon enough).


This has been a fun weekend in some ways. There was a lot of sport, the highlights for me are unsurprising. Yorkshire beat Holland at Headingley in the 40 over competition on Saturday, followed by England winning the World Twenty20 against Australia in Barbados. We also had one of the most eventful F1 races I remember, with only 12 of the 24 starters actually crossing the finish line. The safety car was out almost as much as in NASCAR.


Televisualnesswise there were more enjoyable episodes of Doctor Who and Casualty on Saturday. But unfortunately series 2 of Russell Howard's Good News has finished. But the last two episodes, including a 'best of' for the series, are available on the iPlayer.


I was planning to cover all the fun music I am listening to but I think I will save that for another post. I you have Spotify and Facebook you can see my playlists, but otherwise I am gradually putting together a playlist.


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