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David & Joy

Things wot stain affect the flavour. (said in best Bedforshire slang!)

OK before we get into this post I need to put a disclaimer in place, the photograph to the left is NOT a photo of one of our mugs, it is a picture I got off t’internet click the image to see where I got it from. I just couldn’t be bothered to dig my own camera out and take a photo of one of our mugs. That being said I can now get into the topic of this post. As many of you will already... [Read more of this post]

Godmanchester, a Bog standard place, or at least it used to be!

OK maybe not the most original of titles but it goes some way to explain what this post is about! Toilets. I am half way through week 1 of my 2 weeks holiday, we are away next week but this week we are holidaying at home, with the kids on playscheme Yesterday & Monday we had 2 days to ourselves. which is always a good plan. So Monday we decided to take a trip out to Godmanchester, which is near... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: Missing Andy

This is the 2nd book from Author Lori Moore, who sent me these 2 books personally to review, for which I am very grateful. this book, Missing Andy (The Journey from Grief to Joy) tells the story of grief from Lori’s own personal experience of losing her former husband at the age of 49, she has a unique and very different relationship dynamic, at the time that Andy passed away he and Lori had... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: From Zero to Christian in Just 35 Years

I was contacted out of the blue by Lori More, the author of From Zero to Christian in Just 35 Years having picked up my details from a website listing Book Review Bloggers, she asked if I would be prepared to review her books for her. So she has sent me free review copies of both of her books, this is the first of them that I have now read. Many Thanks Lori for the opportunity to read your books and... [Read more of this post]

How quickly do you respond?

To e-mails that is! This blog post was triggered by someone else’s comments about responding to e-mail but as I cant remember whose blog I was reading at the time let alone which blog post it was I cant give them the credit for the idea! Anyhow, it also goes back a few weeks, one of our pastors, David G was needing to contact a vicar in Northamptonshire, he does some strange things at time so... [Read more of this post]

What is an ‘experienced’ blogger?

I would consider myself a novice in the art? craft? Practice? of bloging but what would make me an experienced or higher grade blogger? Is it to do with the number of blog posts written? the length of time that you have been writing blog posts? The number of regular readers or followers? The number of comments received? or some combination of these all? I suspect that the answer is rather subjective,... [Read more of this post]

Book Review: Friendship for Grownups

You will by now be well aware that I regularly receive free books to read and give an honest review on, this is one such book, I received from Thomas Nelson Publishers. the book is called: Friendship for Grown-Ups: What I Missed and Learned Along the Way by Lisa Whelchel. As with so many of these books, it is an American book written by an American Christian Author but then what would be expected from... [Read more of this post]

Social Networking, Good or Bad for communication?

This blog post was triggered by a blog post from one of my friends, if you are looking for some interesting blogs to follow then I would certainly recommend his. Anyhow, as readers of his blog will be aware he often goes off at tangents in one blog post, much like I do I guess! So this is not so much inspired by the actual purpose of his blog post as much as it is by some of the pre-amble, which is... [Read more of this post]

lessons from a trapeze artist….

As many of you will know, from previous posts, I regularly receive books to read and review, one that I am currently reading (well nearly finished actually) at the moment is Friendship for Grown-Ups: What I Missed and Learned Along the Way by Lisa Whelchel has been a real challenge to me in places, but I don’t intend to go into too much detail on that right here and now, suffice to say a review... [Read more of this post]

Electoral Reform

OK with a hung parliament in place and all the negotiations under way, leaving the Lib Dems in a fairly strong position to negotiate for what they want there is a huge amount of talk on the subject of Proportional Representation. Basically for the un-initiated, we have a parliament that is based on constituencies and each constituency elects its own MP on a ‘first pas the post’ system,... [Read more of this post]

For the love of Chocolate

I have had the really tough job of reviewing some chocolate, yes tough job but some had to do it, you see it started like this, I had an e-mail from my friends at Fuelmyblog who had been asked by the company Chocolate and Love if they could find people willing to receive free samples of chocolate to sample (eat) and write a review on it. So, me being the ever obliging soul I reluctantly took on the... [Read more of this post]

The Elections

Well, its only a few weeks now until we go to the polling booths and choose our new government, if the the polls are to be believed we could end up with a hung parliament, which in my view would be disastrous. Now I know that those of you in Scotland would say that a hung parliament has worked perfectly well there but lets be honest your Scottish parliament is just a Micky mouse government with no... [Read more of this post]

the ISA (nothing to do with savings accounts!)

So, a couple of blog posts ago I did a blog entitled Bloggers Block and wasn’t really sure what I was going to write as I wasn’t sure I had anything to write but the subsequent post was one that seemed to be appreciated as the act of writing seemed to unblock the dam. So, in the spirit of that post I once again don’t know exactly what I am going to write but feel I need to write something,... [Read more of this post]

A Rap…….. on the knuckles that is! and a quote/prayer for you..

I got told off, well kind of, for the last sentence in my previous post where I said that what I write isn’t worth reading. And I guess that she has a point, after all she had read right through to the end of my post, as she does with all of them, to find that comment, so it must have been worth reading! So, here is my apology to you all for saying that, I promise to be a good boy today. Right... [Read more of this post]

Bloggers Block

I have, as you will be aware, been pretty quiet here the past few weeks, this is largely because I have had nothing to say and if I have nothing to say then I say nothing! A policy that seems to work fairly well. Anyhow, life has been ticking along, emotions have been doing a pendulum swing pretty big time, although not with the highs more swinging between one degree of low and another and then into... [Read more of this post]