I am tired - really tired. My limbs ache, and my voice is shot to pieces, but yet I have a huge sense of gratitude and joy, because this is ...

If anyone is interested in reading through the events of Holy Week as they unfold in the four gospels, there are a few harmonies of the acco...

I was invited to a lunch for retired people yesterday at one of the churches in Perth. Little 'Doris' came with me, and behaved beau...

An enjoyable day out today with friends from Tayside Christian Fellowship, including a trip to Crieff, a wander up The Knock, and ice creams...

Looks like a "Marriage Course" night!

The photo is of our broken microwave oven waiting by the front door, ready to be taken to the dump to be unceremoniously er ,... dumped. Thi...

Mrs H. & I really wish that we had done some form of 'Marriage Preparation' before we got hitched in 1996. In our case it wasn...

Being married to a Dr. means that I am frequently subjected to that profession's notoriously dark biological sense of humour which inap...

Clint Eastwood both stars and directs Gran Torino, and in the process all but resurrects his long-gone Dirty Harry character - albeit in ret...

After several seasons playing " Kwik Cricket " (the softball introductory form of the game), number one son (aka 'Boris') ...

I was pointed to this on YouTube today. Sad, poignant, moving - and worth sharing.

Us sola scriptura types have traditionally not placed a great deal of emphasis on the church calendar. In debates now long forgotten by eve...

Not hillwalking - hill cheating on the Gondola. The views just aren't the same if you haven't dragged your reluctant limbs all the w...

The flourishing of American Blues music in the UK in the 1960s was so comprehensive and so surprising that it acquired a title: "The B...

While to the right, The Buachaille grabs all the immediate attention, the view down Glen Etive is inviting and beckoning in a delightful, b...

Inside every child there is a window, It gazes out upon a world, Full of promises of things that are to come. -And in the man, another windo...

It's been a strange week for those of us involved in running The Marriage Course in Perth. I can't think of a week that has been mor...

In the DVD box-set "The Blues: A Musical Journey" which Martin Scorcese put together in collaboration with a whole series of prod...

A short walk today over Kinnoull Hill - unusually without the children in tow. I had always thought that Kinnoull Hill was somewhat devoid o...

Anthony Flew made his name as an academic philosopher - one of the leading voices of atheism in the latter decades of the twentieth century....

Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it, but we hae meat and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thankit.

A case of "mini-me" going on here...

This blog has been a bit quiet over the last few weeks while I have been absorbed (all consumed?) in leading a short Bible-teaching series o...

Plans are afoot to run the marriage course again in Perth starting in mid-Feb. Hopefully there'll be a handful of couples who will want ...

After spending half the morning filling in forms, checking with friends that it was OK to list them as emergency contacts, looking for phone...

More often than not, when the "afternoon play" comes on Radio 4, I switch off a few minutes into the show. I have always appreciat...

Clint Eastwood's film, "Piano Blues" is a feature-length documentary about the history, players and styles of the blues piano....

Endlessly Restless recently responded to a challenge posted by Lucy , which I'm going to do as well! The idea is to post snapshots of t...

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