Christmas Charlie Brown style

Just in case you lose the plot over the next few days of madness. Here’s Linus to remind you.

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Procrastination.

So, I’m back from an epic tour of the East of the country. I’m stopping over in Hove before heading to the land of warmth and hugs at the parents house tomorrow. This evening I was supposed to work through my long list of things to do before going home. Useful things such as packing, [...]

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Joy.

Last night I fulfilled a 15 year old dream of mine. I saw Bruce Springsteen live. Ever since I first jumped around my bedroom to Born to Run, and read everything I could about him from books out of the local library, I’ve wanted to see him live. Mainly because that’s what he does best. [...]

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My newly acquired Godson

Here he is: James Howarth. He lives in Canada with his Mum and Dad most of the time but came over for his Baptism yesterday. He is cute and smiley and laughs a lot. I like him.

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Read this. It’s not about Christmas, but in a roundabout way probably is. It’s certainly what Real being a Christian is all about.

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Christmas thoughts.

Sometimes we need things put in a different way, we need things phrased differently. Recently I got some people to read out John 1 in three different versions of the Bible. Hearing the familiar words expanded, rearranged and explained helped get the meaning across loud and clear. Here are some examples:
From the Amplified Bible: “All [...]

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Christmas Day

Yesterday was Christmas day in our house, a long standing tradition where we invite many people who live near us to participate in good food and lots of fun. Yesterday was no exception. We ate much food, walked on the beach, took a multitude of photos, ate mince pies with brandy butter, drank mulled wine, [...]

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Christmas in the workhouse?

The downside of Christmas is the spending of money on presents. Which isn’t too much of a downside because you get to see peoples faces lit up with excitement at what you’ve bought them. It does however mean money is on the elusive side right now. Also time is sparse, what with all the Christmas [...]

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Christmas

From now on, until the 26th of December this shall be my Christmas blog. It will be shiny, with baubles, swimming in mulled wine, sinking in mince pies and delighting in everything to do with Christmas. I unapologetically love December.
It’s not so much the Christmas thing, lets face it, the actual day is [...]

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