The Strangest Things...

After catching up with  Doctor Who  and  Casualty  earlier I picked up a book and found this intriguing little tale. Invite you to ponder where you agree/disagree with it... The Virgin Mary's Child The Brother's Grimm (Translated by Jack Zipes) A poor woodcutter and his wife lived at the edge of a large forest, and their only child was a little girl who was three years old.They were so poor they could not have daily meals anymore and did not know how they would provide food for their daughter. One morning the woodcutter, who was distressed by all this, went into the forest to work. As he began chopping wood a tall, beautiful woman suddenly appeared before him. She was wearing a crown of shining stars on her head and said to him, "I am the Virgin Mary, mother of the Christ Child. Since you are poor and needy, bring me your child. I'll take her with me to be her mother and look after her." The woodcutter obeyed her. He brought his child and gave her...

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 has been the most interesting election I remember. After an eventful campaign the big question was whether the Liberals would work with either party or if the Tories would form a minority government. All weekend the assumption had been that they would work with the Tories, then yesterday they switched to Labour. By the afternoon it didn't look like anything fruitful would emerge but who knew? What a difference a CU meeting makes. We left home about 7pm to go get to campus before the meeting started, and when we got back Mr Brown had resigned and Mr Cameron had taken over with Mr Clegg as his deputy. Weird. At least now we know what is going to happen for the next 5 years (ish). A government can be removed by a no confidence vote of 55% of MPs. The Tories currently have 47% so it's not going to happen any time soon. This has been a long week so far.

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...