.... I know I've been rather lax (AGAIN...) about posting... but is anyone except Stephen Hall actually receiving this blog?? I need to know, because "Tell Me Your Name" is in discussions about cover art! Love from the PPI Blogger...
There are various reasons for taking an interest in the Olympics, and the main one is if it gives you pleasure. But there are perhaps a few reasons for not caring. Before Rio, prolific blogger Ian Paul posted this, https://www.psephizo.com/life-ministry/why-i-wont-be-watching-the-olympics/pointing out the huge environmental and financial...
I recently rewatched the first episode of the excellent BBC TV series “Sherlock” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, written by Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss. It is called “A Study in Pink” and is inspired by Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet,” minus the...
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned my fascination with football? No, of course I haven’t, because it doesn’t exist. I don’t think I have ever watched an entire football match in my life; I watched half of one my son was playing in. I’ve drawn...
We Christians occasionally wonder how best to welcome visitors, in an age when many adults almost never enter a church. The weirdness of the experience for the newcomer is sometimes compared with that of a respectable middle-class person entering a betting shop for the first...
I see that my last three posts have all been about books, so this one had better not be. I did speculate about writing “People I’m Hoping Will Die Soonish,” but well, it might be in bad taste. This thought was inspired by two people. One was...
It was interesting that the Coronation came two days after the local elections. Regular readers of this blog may not be surprised that I was pleased by Labour gains, hee hee gloat gloat. I did also watch the Coronation. I had various thoughts during this long...
Did I tell you about the Monthly Eco Baby-Steps Plan, by the way? Last month’s baby-step was “try to make sure I don’t overfill the kettle” which is indeed pretty baby. It’s also trickier than I’d realised, because a short person like myself doesn’t automatically...
I was very flattered a little while ago when a local artist I knew slightly said he wanted to paint my portrait. His name is Matthew Lyons, and I think it was during the pandemic that he decided to paint a varied series of local people,...
Someone I know asked whether, or to what extent, we do or should blame the people of Russia for the actions of Vladimir Putin. I had already been wondering about a post on the disadvantages of democracy. The obvious quote here is Churchill: “it has been said...