Discernment
on Nov 21, 2009 in Discernment Women Bishops Church of England In retrospect.I wrote a piece of silliness and comment on the Anglican-Catholic relationship of these later days, and especially on its treatment on the press and in the blogosphere.  But after this post found its way onto websites and blogs I h...

Well obviously they're Pentecostals...
on Nov 21, 2009They speak in a language other people don't understand and they've got their hands in the air.Presumably 10% of the photo rights went to a Pentecostal church.Thanks to Ruth Gledhill.

Top 20 Twitterers
on Nov 20, 2009 in Famous Tweets Thanks to Cranmer, who noticed this poll.  Thankfully we rescued the Internet Archive from the wreckage of the Moot House and have been able to find the following, which confirms our belief that you wouldn't really want to follow most of these p...

Penguins again
on Nov 20, 2009 in Holy Penguins In answer to several questions, no - I've no idea where they came from.  But they're making Fr Jack fairly nervous so we're sending him back to Craggy Island.

Switch it off and switch it back on again
on Nov 20, 2009 in LHC The Large Hadron Collider is once again rotating protons in one direction.  Nice to know that the principle of fixing PCs has been extended to sub-nuclear physics.  If it still doesn't work, we're looking forward to some giant PC support en...

European matters
on Nov 19, 2009 in Overused puns Much excitement among the Beaker Fertility Folk at the appointment of Herman von Rumpuy.  On a casual reading of his name they assumed he was one of their own, and have been breaking out the blackberry cider, celebrating the benefits of the newl...

A day of mourning for Irish football
on Nov 19, 2009 in Republic of Ireland Football After the despair we watched in Paris thanks to Young Keith's borderline-legal box of tricks and the dustbin lid he has customised to use as a Sky dish, the blatant cheating by a player we thought so respectable, and the sight of a bunch of players w...

Holy Penguins
on Nov 19, 2009 in Holy Penguins Young Keith has a new hobby.  A group of six rockhopper penguins.  With their eyebrows and bumbling manner they remind us someone, but we can't quite work out who it is.  Possibly a former druid?  Or maybe the old Aspley Guise Met...

Thought for the Day
on Nov 18, 2009 in Thought for the Day The Church Mouse comments intelligently on the decision of the BBC not to allow secular, humanist or atheist contributions to Thought for the Day.We here in Husborne Crawley can't see any reason why non-believers qua non-believers should have any rig...

Traditional Cockney Spirituality
on Nov 18, 2009 in Spirtuality Rhyming Slang London I'd like to thank King Chas and Queen Denise of the Pearly Folk of Bethnal Green for their visit to us today.Especially at these times of remembrance, the Beaker Folk that descend from the Cockney diaspora look back to their ancestral homeland, from...