The love of the telling?

There are many concepts addressed in C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce that are extremely insightful, if not equally controversial. (Read the flannelgraph review here).
I admit to being only an amateur musician, focusing mostly on writing songs for use in congregational worship, but I find Lewis’ insight into the motivations of the ‘Christian’ artist deeply challenging.
“It was all a [...]

Hidden tunnels under Albert Park

I have always been fascinated by World War 2 history and especially old gun emplacements, tunnels and stuff.  A dream I have is to visit France and explore the Axis fortifications along the coast (including the sub-pens).  In future posts I will be writing about some of New Zealand’s historic WW2 sites, but first I want to write about the [...]

I am a singing at the party…

The latest movie to grace my best-movies-of-all-time list is a film that exudes intelligence, high drama, phenomenal acting and a deeply spiritual message…
Nacho Libre.
Some movies have the magical ability to get better with each viewing and Nacho Libre is definitely one of these.  Especially when the whole family watches it multiple times.  Then a well-placed Nacho quote, impression, song, or [...]

The sounds of hell in Siberia

A comment on yesterday’s post reminded me of an old urban legend about another hell hole in Russia, but one which is rather more disturbing. The story goes like this…
Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. The project’s manager was quoted as saying [...]

The Doorway to Hell

Do I believe hell exists? Absolutely. Do I believe it is a physical place somewhere close to the Earth’s core? No… But if it was, no place could better be described as Hell’s doorway than the man-made phenomenon near the town of Darvaza, Uzbekistan.
Several slight variations exist, but in essence the story begins during Soviet times in 1971. [...]

Grifters, BMXs and Sweet Jumps

The summer of 1983.  BMX mania had swept the world.  Hence, all I had dreamed of all year for Christmas was a BMX. Imagine my excitement (or lack of) when I got a Grifter.
Grifter: Children’s bicycle manufactured and marketed from 1976 and until early 1983 by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England.
Grifter Pros:

The gear shift (which was incorporated [...]

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Blogs and Bollywood

How did I see the New Year in? I was up to 1:30am wrangling my new blog platform (goodbye Blogger, hello Wordpress), oh and watching Bride and Prejudice at the same time… I cannot honestly say which was more painstaking to watch – countless ‘error notifications or Martin Henderson being all romantic-like in a sherwani. Bollywood [...]

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My evolution of musical taste

Being a child of the 70’s my taste in music was influenced by my older siblings – Disco Europop.
Abba

The 80’s started with a bang, and like most kids my age I whittled away many a Saturday cradling my poor-man’s ‘Ghetto Blaster’ listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.
Too many classics to mention but one band pretty much sums it up:
A-Ha [...]

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Mysterious Mr. X and the perfect body

A doco screened recently which showed that only 2 women out of 60 had the ‘perfect’ body proportions for their size. 

3% = perfect body proportions.

If only 3% of women have one, that means that 97 out of 100 have ‘imperfect’ body proportions (imperfect being the opposite of perfect).

97%= imperfect body proportions.

The dictionary defines the word ‘imperfect’ as:  characterized by faults, mistakes, etc.; defective.  Not good [...]

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The butler’s rolling pin (and 20 other differences)

The clip below is extremely well done and very entertaining. I bet your bottom dollar you will view it more than once.
Anyone for a game of Cluedo?

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