The Strangest Things...

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 a...

Well, this is going to be fairly a fairly sprawling post because there are a few things I was going to post but didn't get round to. First things second, how amazing is Doctor Who ? It's definitely come miles since it restarted a few years ago. I'm still unsure about vyhis new doctor or the odd new darleks but aren't the weeping angels scary? blink was always one of my favorite episodes - the idea is trurlely the stuff of nightmares. Roll on tomorrow's episode is all I can say. Also I watched  Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince  today. I have to agree with many of the criticisms of the early films, such as the lack of experience of the kids, but sticking with them has certainly payed off. The characters are supposed to have known each other for years, and as this group of actors actually has grown up together shows in the chemistry on screen. Despite the magic surrounding the story the relationships seem very true to life and slightly more subtle than other...