“And prayer is moreThan an order of words, the conscious occupationOf the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.And what the dead had no speech for when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.” (T S Eliot, Little […]
Month: October 2014
EBOLA: a doctor’s diary
Dr Geraldine O’Hara is working with Ebola patients and is keeping an audio diary of her experiences for Radio 4. It’s extremely moving. If you’ve not managed to hear it yet, here is Day 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029mw5n (image from bbc.com)
WHENEVER I’M WRONG …
‘Whenever I’m wrong the world makes a little less sense.’ (Frasier) (image from akenhurst.com)
UNFAILING LOVE
‘Our courteous Lord does not want his servants to despair even if they fall frequently and grievously. Our falling does not stop his loving us.’ Mother Julian of Norwich (1373-1417) (image from freedomhunger.blogspot)
COMETH THE BAILIFF
Yes REALLY There are only 3 flats in our little block: we’re on the ground floor and Lovely Neighbours are on the top. The middle flat was owned by a guy who was also the freeholder, and none of us could get any money out of him for anything, such as general maintenance and repair […]
TOXIC MIXTURE
From Sue Fitzmaurice
OF PINK STRIPES AND BISHOPS
Well stripe me pink. Good heavens. Fancy that, flipping nora and gracious me. Who’dathought it?? So there I was, sounding off on this very blog yesterday, having a fine old rant … and this morning we go, in obedience to a three-line whip, to a clergy day with the New Bish. And he only got […]
