James Ots

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 ...

Today I went to Hay on Wye, where there are about thirty or so bookshops. While driving there I went through some really nice English countryside, but I didn’t stop because I thought I could get the photographs on the way home. Which was a stupid thing to think, because the light had changed and ...

At last, I have finished reading The Horse Whisperer, a book by Nicholas Evans. It’s been one of those books which has been a struggle to finish. I don’t like reading stuff where people have affairs and the author is writing it as if they’re doing the right thing. It just does my head in, ...

Hooray – I’ve got a card reader for my CompactFlash cards, so now I can get the pictures out of my camera and onto my computer again. So here’s a picture from the weekend away. I didn’t take anything worth putting on the photos page.

This past weekend was the last ever New Horizons Church Weekend Away and as usual, I really enjoyed it. As well as lots of sitting around chatting to old friends and making new friends, I also did archery on Saturday and rock climbing on Sunday. In one go at archery (four shots) I got two ...

Actually, the times, they a-changed a while ago now. Its the weather that’s a-changing at the moment. This evening, after going to Ristorante Etna for Jon-Man’s leaving meal (where I had the best steak I’ve had for ages), we went down to The Glasshouse and sat round a table outside and had a few drinks, ...