So long and thanks for all the fish…

There isn’t a more appropriate phrase in my head to sum up the end of this blog. For the time has come for Hoveactually to be packed up in a box and put on the top shelf of my wardrobe (along with other boxes of memories, letters and the like). It’s been fun but there [...]

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Back

Sarah says I should start blogging again, I’m not really convinced of the merits of blogging whilst very spaced out due to being poorly sick. But there you go. What may follow who can tell because my brain seems to be made of wobbly jelly at the moment. Anyways, you should look at this. It’s [...]

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Men.

Yes. Yes. Yes.
(I know, lazy ass blogging, but there’s a lot going on right now)

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1st of the month

This is genius…

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Pretty.

I’m currently pondering the content of blog posts and the wisdom of disclosure in such an abstract context. (can you tell I’ve been to L’abri recently?) I think the answer is more thinking, ‘why I am posting this?’, before I post. More questions such as: Am I communicating something I should really communicate [...]

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no30

“But alas! These my golden expectations have been like the south sea dreams.  I have lived hither to a poor sinner, and I believe I shall die one.  Have I then gained nothing?  Yes I have gained that which I once would rather have been without – such accumulated proof of the deceitfulness and desperate [...]

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no23

Get hold of this. It’s pretty much the best book understanding depression and it’s affect on your head. The illustrations are brillant as are the one line simple explanations of what goes on when black dog comes to visit:
“When the rest of the world seemed to be enjoying life, I could only see it through [...]

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no8

“Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.”
(J.Piper)

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no5

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost,
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
(J.R.Tolkien- Lord of the Rings)

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This is going to be brilliant. Can’t wait.

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