Monthly Archives: May 2005

The new series o­n BBC2 o­n how five men fare when they enter into the monastic life for six weeks is well worth a view, as is the Worth Abbey website page at http://www.worthabbey.net/bbc/index.html which aims to help viewers make their … Continue reading →

Collected the new car yesterday. It is in the o­nly colour I've never had before – black. Rather smart too. A Fiat Punto with a driver's seat that goes up and down. As you can see from the above I … Continue reading →

A basketball net is sufficiently like a netball goal for the sons to be impressed at the mother's prowess. Yes – I was fit enough to indulge in a bit of net practice over the weekend. (Perhaps I should mention … Continue reading →

My Jesuit friends taught me something of the art of attending to God by reviewing the past day to try and discern when God's presence was known. It is a useful habit to develop and can produce some surprising truths. … Continue reading →

People have been asking me what it is like to be retired. I seem to have stopped working in a parish and started doing all sorts of other things. At the moment I am a bookseller, political activist, writer……oh yes, … Continue reading →

Success takes many forms; in Stirling consituency where I have been helping along with a team of about sixty campaigners, the LibDems achieved a 9% swing and almost beat the Tories into second place. So it is not a win … Continue reading →

Election Day. Campaigning is taking many different forms this week. There has been domestic service, delivering, advertising and being general dogsbodies. Polling has now started and the rosettes are being ironed ready to adorn those o­n duty at polling stations. … Continue reading →

Browsing through a mail order catalogue this week I came across the ultimate in pet accessories – A Pet stroller – complete with picture of a west highland terrier in its own doggy pushchair. They do try to say it … Continue reading →

A friend gave me lessons o­n folding, stuffing, sticking and stamping….   Yes, it was for the election effort! It seems she spent part of her youth in a mail-room and there is a definite technique for making life easier. That … Continue reading →

For two out of the three years I was at the University of St Andrews, I got up at five-thirty o­n May Day morning and went out to swim in the sea pool. It was freezing, full of seaweed but … Continue reading →