Today at church I made notes during the sermon. Some of the phrases I noted down were ‘Ambassadorial Relationship’, ‘Bastardization of the Universe’, ‘Universality of Apostolic Frequency’, ‘Density of Medium’ and ‘Human Touch Point’. No idea what he was talking about, but the phrases he used made me laugh. I don’t think that was his ...

The new Coventry rugby stadium is being built just round the corner from where I live, and it’s nearing completion. Today I noticed its name: Butts Park Arena. I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere. Despite that, I’m still looking forward to watching a few rugby games there when it’s finished. It’s a shame ...

This morning we had a visiting speaker at church who is notorious for going on for ages. So I turned up at the end of the service and I plan to get the CD instead, because then I can turn it off when I’m bored instead of having to sit there for two hours in ...

I just spent the day overhauling my Strat. The main thing I wanted to do was just to get the wiring done right so that all the pickups worked (it’s a little complicated since I have a push-pull switch on the second tone control which switches the humbucker at the bridge from series to parallel), ...

This evening after watching the last ever Friends, I was lured into watching the start of Big Brother. But after over half the contestants had entered the house I realised that I don’t like any of them and find most of them really irritating already, so I switched off the TV and decided that I ...

After church today we went for dinner at The White Lion, in Brownshill Green. It’s a very nice pub with great food, but they do have the weirdest pub sign outside.

As I hoped, The Courtship of Morrice Buckler is another really good book by A. E. W. Mason. It’s a book of honour, courage and romance, which contrasts rather nicely with most of the books by Anita Shreve. Although I still think she’s a great writer, it’s been a while since I’ve been able to ...