Life
Unicycling skills
I’ve been unicycling for a week. I’m up and going, starting to turn, can free-mount every now and then. I tell everyone I’m doing it to stay fit, trim and to rediscover the washboard hiding in the mono-ab somewhere, but perhaps its just that I really am a clown. I can tell you’re guffawing – [...]
Drake’s prayer
My name is Drake… Symon Drake. I’m a descendant of Sir Francis Drake. Actually a descendant of one of his brothers, as he never had children. I’ve tracked my direct ancestry back to the 1700s so there is a bit of a gap to get back to Francis – but his name has been in [...]
New Zealand, the uttermost?
All my life I’ve heard that New Zealand is the farther-most country from Israel. This is rather exciting in the light of scriptures like: Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. (Psalm 2:8) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come [...]
Unicycling is the answer
Yesiree. I’ve always been keen on learning to ride a unicycle and as the old adage goes “You’re never too old to learn.” I was reading the instructions that came with my newly-acquired, made in China, “half-bike”, and they assure me that all my wildest dreams will come true – all thanks to my humble [...]
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life
Continuing with my theme of the popular Atheist slogan… I think I handled the “There’s probably no God” reasonably enough in my last post. Now for an intelligent exposition of the second half… … now stop worrying and enjoy your life. The phrase implies that those that believe in God… A) worry and B) don’t [...]
There’s probably no atheists…
The first of the Atheist Bus messages have now started rolling out across Britain, the most popular being: “There’s probably no God so stop worrying and enjoy your life.” The “probably” just cracks me up. It’s as if the non-theists responsible for the slogans aren’t totally convinced themselves. Imagine if John 3:16 read: “God probably [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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