The long dark teatime of the soul...

Post 1.01.01

2010-09-11T22:09:00.000+01:00

Well a friend of mine told me I should start writing this blog, so bare with me as I begin to clog the internet with my inane drivel once more, again..

I have a cup of coffee, I don’t know how anyone is meant to write a blog post at 9:29pm on a Saturday night with out a large cup of coffee, unless like I didn’t do today they slept all day till 2 or 4 or even 5 pm .. But I didn’t do that, I have coffee! I also have white wine (should I write that with a mainly Christian readership) Well I have drunked all* the wine and none of the coffee yet which rendered this last paragraph kind of useless-full..

I like a blog with food notes, as a wise man once said (I think it was me); “if it’s worth saying, it’s worth saying with food notes - I mean footnotes!” Well I have footboats but nothing worth weighing yet, so I move hastily onto the subject of this post..

I WANT AN IPAD!!!

Now please don’t get the wrong idea, please don’t switch off, please let me explain, please don’t just leave I have no readers already, if you go I’ll be into the read! I am not one of those technical geeks enamoured of the ipad because of it’s 9.2’, 1025/768 twix, blewtooth, Hi-Fi, and 16-64 beautiful gigabits of storage.. May it live for ever..

No I want one for much more Godly reasons.. Okay I’ve not worked out what those reasons are yet, but I’m working on it! Hard! And there are loads of good reasons why when you set your mind to it!

Apple say so, and Apple know best!

It’s pretty and I want one

Glyndŵr students will all get saved if they see Gateway church has ipads!

It’s pretty and I want one

It will annoy my good friend Steve King, and will cause my good friends Sam Li, and Aled Morgan to sin with envy..

It really is very pretty and I really very want one!

Anyhow, I think that is about all you ever need to know about the iPad .. Retailing for just £100 pounds more than it’s worth! Can you say that on the internet?

* All - in moderation

I don't think Music ever made me cry before..

2010-06-09T03:17:00.003+01:00

But I cried listening to this, not sadness just from not knowing what else to do with that level of beauty in sound, God made us to enjoy creativity .. Bach labored over writing this, these men spent years perfecting the art of violin playing .. But God made Bach's mind, he grew the fingers that make that sound, he designed the sound waves and the friction of the bow across the strings, he gave the wood it's acoustic value.. How great is our God!

Could a day be any more perfect?

2010-05-20T13:08:00.002+01:00

This for Wrexham off of the BBC weather news site .. Fog, grey cloud, sunny intervals, clear sky!

Cricket - T20 World Cup Final..

2010-05-15T22:40:00.004+01:00

Please if you are not familiar with Cricket do not switch off, I will try my very hardest not go into any great detail with out first explaining it in the form of the humble footnote.

Well England¹ have made their way spectacuarly into the final of the Twenty20² World Cup³, and will play Australia⁴ tomorrow⁵ in Barbados⁶. If it lives up to expectations⁷ it could be one of the greatest⁸ games of at least this week!

But truth be told I fear it will be a depressing rout as Australia steamroll England who will crumble predictably like a raspberry jelly smashed on a chopping board! The only hope for England is that their water based fruity dessert holds firm together and the knife of fate slices hard missing their pudding and hitting straight through the chopping board of The Australian middle order, into the marble worktop of history.

¹A County in Western Europe known for inventing sports, football, rugby, cricket, tennis, badminton and then being beaten at them by the rest of the world..
²A short form of Cricket played over 20 'overs' a side, an over being 6 'balls' long, a ball being a play as the bowler bowls the ball towards the wicket (three stumps), Oh this is too much like Hard work go read about it on Wikipedia..
³A cup played for by the world..
⁴A race of super sporting beings who will destroy England tomorrow in Barbados..
⁵Day after today
⁶A Island in the WestIndies ..
⁷Hopes made to be dashed!
⁸Better than average, preferably vaguely interesting! Truth be told so many sporting events are called the greatest sporting event of all time that it is often hard to differentiate between brilliance and mediocrity!

Photo of the Day.. RED

2010-05-15T15:07:00.002+01:00

I took this in Bodnant Gardens North Wales, April this year..

When Robbers Rob and Writers, well..

2010-05-15T01:09:00.005+01:00

Well, I think this is about the last of many chances for this blog.. I have deleted all the old posts that span back to 2004, or should that be spanned, they are all but gone now.. I be live they are achieved somewhere on the Internet but I hope and pray I shall never have to set my gaze on them again!

It has just gone 11 past 1am in the morning, not the afternoon, the time when good people are asleep and bad people are robbing houses, banks, cars and the like.. I am writing my blog, which I think is a most excellent waste of time.. And at least it gives me an alibi for the car window I just smashed in out side B@Q in Leeds.. I say in Leeds, just in case there is such a case in Deeside tonight and this post is taken to be my confession. If that is so I would like to state now that I have never smashed a car window in my life, though I came within 6 inches of doing so once with a cricket ball from 50 yards, and the dent in my Dad's car will testify to my truthfulness! And that's about all I've got to say on the matter! It's good to be blogging again, I shall take this slowly and try not to write too much at once! Hope you enjoyed reading my return!

I heard the voice of Jesus say

2010-05-15T00:57:00.004+01:00

I've always loved this song, not least because of the tune "Kingsfold" arranged by Vaughn Williams, which is simply beautiful. I like the way the words show Jesus to be all we need in all aspects of life, but the last lines are what really do it for me, I pray they are the song of my life: 'I looked to Jesus, and I found In Him my star, my sun; And in that light of life I’ll walk ’Til pilgrim days are done.'

1. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, O weary one lay down,
Your head upon My breast.”
I came to Jesus as I was,
So weary, worn and sad;
I found in Him my resting place,
And He has made me glad.

2. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“Behold I freely give
The living water; thirsty one,
Stoop down and drink, and live.”
I came to Jesus, and I drank
From that life-giving stream
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in Him.

3. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
“I am this dark world’s light;
Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise,
And all thy days be bright.”
I looked to Jesus, and I found
In Him my star, my sun;
And in that light of life I’ll walk
’Til pilgrim days are done.

Horatius Bonar
(1808-1889)

Look to Jesus!

2010-05-14T13:20:00.007+01:00

I'm not sure this really rhymes, is has some vague form of rhythm, in short it's nothing great - but it helped me when I was feeling somewhat down to write it, I hope it blesses you to read..

So dark the day when we walk with backs turned towards the light!
Turn to Christ Jesus who will illuminate darkest night!
"How can I come? his light will show my sin!" you ask in fear!
Oh look! His blazing eyes shine grace and love to pardon you!
He'll adopt you, dace over you, sing, bring you home with joy!
He bought you with his blood, you think he has forgotten you!?
You think he will now forgive? You think he will not bless?