Book Review: NLT Devotions for Lent, from the Mosaic Bible.

My thanks, once again, to Tyndale for provision of not just 1 but a whole pack of 10 copies of Devotions for Lent (Holy Bible: Mosaic) free of charge, for me to review the product. Well, this may just about be the fastest time from receipt of item to posting the review, basically I opened the pack about an hour ago and am now ready to review. but first a little background. Some of you may recall my... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: The Power of respect

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My thanks to Thomas Nelson, the publishers of The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success, by Deborah Norville. For giving me the opportunity of reviewing a free copy of this book. This book attracted my attention simple because of the title, everyone but everyone seems to think they have the monopoly on respect and that it is others who show a lack of respect in whatever... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: The Busy Christians guide to busyness.

This is the third in my trilogy of book reviews, it is actually the book I read first but have decided to review last. I wasn’t sure whether or not to actually do this review, for reasons that might become clear as you read the review, but as I have made a decision to generally review books then I ought to be consistent. This book, The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness by Tim Chester, was... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: Who Moved MY Cheese?

This is the second of 3 book reviews that I am currently planning on doing, this book ‘Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life?’ was written by Dr Spencer Johnson. I picked up on this book through another blog I was reading but I can’t remember for the life of me whose blog it was and I haven’t been able to locate the post to give them credit,... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: The Digital Photography Book 1

I have related this blog, or rather the frequency of the posts therein, to Busses before now, and this is no exception, having posted something over the weekend I am now moving on to post reviews on 3, yes 3, Books that I have just finished. In a departure to the norm these are NOT books that I have been given for the purpose of writing reviews but in the case of 2 of them I bought them with my own,... [Read more of this post]

Stale Mate

That’s how I feel, spiritually and emotionally, at the moment. Like my life has reached one big stalemate! I feel as though I can’t go anywhere really, just stay put moving between 2 squares, back and forth, back and forth. I wish I could move but there seems to be no real option for movement. Some of this ‘stale mate’ is caused by me feeling emotionally empty, unable to reach into my emotions... [Read more of this post]

An Evening of Worship with the Hudson Taylors

Last year, as a testament to the power of Social Networking, I made contact, through Facebook, with Noel Richards and invited him to come and do an event at our church, which he did along with his good friend, Wayne Drain. This was such a good evening that we decided to invite them back again this year, so once again using the powers available through Social Networking, we invited them again but also... [Read more of this post]

Joy &Maggie

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Is this excess packaging or what!

In my hand you can see the black, tiny, Micro SD Card, in the background the box in which it was delivered.  Read More →

How do you write yours?

For some, no most, of my readers, that question is possibly totally irrelevant. as the question relates to how your write your Blog Posts and I believe that the majority of my readers probably don’t write blog posts at all so will have huge difficulty in answering that question. The thought was triggered by me writing an e-mail to someone who has contacted me in response to a blog post. I was... [Read more of this post]

Is it just my imagination or…….

has anyone else noticed that there seems to be an awful lot of violent crime being reported at the moment? both with cases coming to court and in crimes actually being committed. This will only be a short post and not a particular moan jsut drawing attention to something I have observed, with some comment. On 2 separate occasions in the past couple of weeks, we have seen areas cordoned off by the police... [Read more of this post]

the Panasonic G1 Digital Camera

 Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 12.1MP Digital Camera with Lumix G Vario 14-45 mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH Mega OIS Lens Ok so I cheated with this photo, it isn’t taken by me put pinched directly from Panasonic’s web site, but how am I supposed to take a photo of a camera when I need to use the camera to take the photo? various options involving  mirror come to mind but none of them would be very satisfactory.... [Read more of this post]

We have the Heat

The new boiler was fitted Thursday/Friday last week, although due to a fault with the original Programmable Thermostat they had to come back this week, which the guy did yesterday, to fit a new one. It has been so nice knowing that the boiler is just working and we have hot water on tap, we haven’t had hot water like that for a number of months, the novelty of being able to turn on the hot tap... [Read more of this post]

An Anniversary I would rather not have.

OK so a weird title eh? It was the anniversary, during the week, of an event that I am not going to enlarge on here, for reasons too personal to mention but suffice to say that this time last year I was suffering from pretty severe depression, as anyone who knows me at all will have been well aware. I had actually been suffering from depression for a couple of years and it hadn’t been taken overly... [Read more of this post]

How sick can people get?

I am totally sickened at the depths of depravity that mankind will sink in the name of humour! This post is likely to spark off a debate on freedom of speech and civil liberties but to my mind people do NOT have the right to use other peoples misfortune and heartache as a source of humour and amusement. OK so it goes like this, apparently back in November 2008 the Sun carried a big story about having... [Read more of this post]