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The Eyre Affair

Quite simply, the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is the silliest novel I’ve read for a long time. The plot is strange, the characters are unbelievable and the whole thing is absolutely wonderful. If you are happy to suspend disbelief for a few hours and imerse yourself in a cracking thriller with some of the […]

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Well; There’s a Relief!

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Ding Dong Dell, Jumbo’s in the Well

Years ago when we lived in Africa, we had a snake in our well and I had to fish it out. That doesn’t compare to the story on this BBC video when a baby elephant is rescued from down a well. It’s one of those stories you don’t quite believe till you see it.

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Puns

This little story is well worth reading if you enjoy word play. HT connexions

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Two Things

Firstly, it would be inelegant to gloat and point out that not only are Sunderland getting promotion to the premiership, they are doing so as champions. However, I’ve never claimed to be elegant, so I’m going to gloat anyway! Secondly, I stole this story from Ben Witherington’s blog. Mama’s Bible Four brothers left home for […]

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Toilet Tales 3

Thanks again to Phil (who seems to spend even more time on the net than I do) for this uplifting story from the BBC. Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer Toto is offering free repairs to 180,000 toilets after some of them caught fire.

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Good Grief!

If this had been three days earlier, I might have thought it was an April fool’s joke. From today’s Times. (Thanks Phil) A supermarket chain got itself into a huge muddle over the meaning of Easter yesterday in its attempt to sell more chocolate eggs. “Brits are set to spend a massive £520 million on […]

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Last of the Dinosaurs?

I didn’t have any work to do today, so with some friends we made a trip by road to some forest north of here. It was a fairly long and tiring drive – but at least the car was air conditioned. There are still extensive tracts of rain forest here in Congo which have not […]

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Essential Equipment for Mission

Thanks to Andrew Jones for this picture. To think I’ve spent all these years training people in linguistics, anthropology and other stuff, without ever seeing that folding organs could be a valuable aid for mission work. Any ideas of other important things I’ve forgotten?

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Global Warming

I found this picture on connexions The blog of Richard Hall, a Methodist Minister in South Wales. I’ve added connexions to my blogroll and heartily encourage you to take a look at what Richard is writing. There is some good stuff to be found there.