I’ve not drunk any caffeine for 2 weeks now – which has got to be some sort of record since my early teens.
I’ve been thinking about giving up for a while, but could never quite find a time when I was prepared to be sleepy… But after being ill 2 weeks ago and not drinking [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Caffeine Free
Posted in life, musings on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Goodbye Tolls
Posted in Scottish on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Big news. In a way. Sort of. For Scots on the East Coast.
The tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges will be removed from the 11th February. WhatI find disturbing is that this is one of the few things the Scottish Government has done that I personally will immediately feel the benefit of. Ohh well…. [...]
The hypocrisy of wearing a suit to a communion service
Posted in church, ponderings, theology on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
So, it was communion sunday yesterday at church, and another opportunity to reflect on the alien world that church can be. See here for previous post, ‘a tale of two communion services’.
Dmains brings out the suits when it’s communion sunday. Along with the frowns. It was noticable that every man serving communion was wearing jacket [...]
Money, justice, revenge and The Visit
Posted in life, review on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see “The Visit” on saturday, as produced by a team at Queen Margaret University. It is a remarkably dark play, which thinks around the carnage created by allowing the belief that money can buy any thing.
It centres around a character, claire, who left a village some 35 years earlier, driven out [...]
Westlife in Church
Posted in church, music, ponderings on January 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We had westlife in church this evening. Sort of. Technically, the service wasn’t “in the church”, but since the church of scotland’s meant to be big on the whole church-without-walls, and the hall the church-as-community were meeting in definately had walls (and a roof, heating etc), I think it counts.
But the big question is, does [...]
Soft spot for sinners?
Posted in quotes on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
ht: Theo (thanks!)
Neo-Druidic Celtic Christianity
Posted in emerging churches, life on January 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am, in a gentle strolling kind of way, keeping an eye open for expression of Christianity in Edinburgh that resonate a bit more with who I am than Church seems to.
Sometimes I come across things that seem so close, and yet, totally on the wrong planet.
A Celtic Spirituality Group working with the Celtic Christian [...]
The WVV, drastic/dramatic weight loss, and the absence of posts
Posted in life on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week I discovered a dramatic, and I-am-by-no-means-whatsoever-am-i-endorsing-it drastic weight loss technique, known in the trade as the Winter Vomiting Virus. Go google it yourself if you’ve not read quite enough about it in the news already these past few months. Not pleasant.
My normally healthy, yet somewhat injury prone, body has not been wiped out [...]
On Cultivating Gratitude
Posted in life, music on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Happiness Project has a good wee post on cultivating gratitude today:
A study showed that people who daily reflected on five things they appreciated felt happier, had more energy, and slept better. People who worked on their gratitude even exercised more!
see here.
One of the things I really like about The Happiness Project is that it [...]
Waiting
Posted in life, musings on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life could be a lot worse, but that doesn’t mean that it feels all that good at the moment.
It was great on Friday to get a real sense that it was the right decision not to do a PhD just now, but coupled with that relief was an increase in frustration that the choice I [...]
