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Christians in Media – the Day After
The morning after an important conference often leaves me slightly disorientated. I was up at 5:45 a.m. yesterday, Friday, to make a round trip to London of 230 miles, which I survived and actually quite enjoyed. I...
Visit to a community soup lunch
I had read recently in the Mendip Times that a soup lunch was being held at the Old School House Community Centre in Pensford, and so we thought, why not give it a try? It was advertised as taking place between twelve...
Christians in Media conference 9 October 2026
Update https://www.briansnellgrove.net/2026/10/10/christians-in-media-the-day-after/ Reports will appear here below as I complete them; I will present each session on an individual basis Speaker Position or...
Share and Repair – High Littleton + Radford Mill Harvest Celebration
We attended the monthly Share and Repair session at the local Scout Centre in High Littleton, held on a Saturday from 10.00 am until 12.30 pm. Françoise had brought along an ageing hi-fi unit, complete with CD and...
Taking on Sky – and Saving £290 a Year
Today I decided it was time to tackle my ever-increasing Sky bill. I had discovered that I was paying £44 a month for broadband, which seemed decidedly uncompetitive. After negotiating my way through Sky's Virtual...
I Ask AI: Is My Disappearing Friend Really a Friend?
Me: I have a friend of long standing who disappears off the face of the earth for months at a time and then returns to me when he needs something. I'm fed up with this switch-on-switch-off mentality because the main...
Ancient wisdom from Ethiopia
Every human being carries two winds within them at all times: the wind of life and the wind of error. The wind of error isn't simply another name for sin; it's described as a parasite, calculated and intentional, with...
Depression that is hard to treat – BBC R4 – ‘All in the Mind’
Depression is one of those words we throw around without thinking too carefully about what it actually means or what its causes might be. Is it really appropriate to say that we are “depressed” because someone is late...
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