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Standing Steadfast – describing your friends – healing – a film from Bhutan

I attended our Christian study group last evening and the topic was Israel, particularly the history of Israel going back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from 2000 BC. I don't see how anyone can understand the current position unless you make an examination in general of the tensions in the Middle East, and when they were caused, previous incursions by Israel onto its neighboring Palestine, who set...

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Throwing beloved things away – rogue gardeners – the shock of being thanked

Does my bag  need a burial ceremony? To the casual eye, this looks like a scruffy old bag but to me it is much more than that. I bought it in Boston, Ma, USA in about 1995. It has served me well traveling to Sri Lanka, Singapore. Australia, South Africa (20 times), the United States and Canada, not to mention my travels in Europe. It has a wonderful combination of a lot of pockets as well as...

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An action-packed weekend part 1

First stop, the monthly market in the marketplace of Midsomer Norton Françoise bought her usual fish order. There are no fishmongers in Midsomer Norton and she doesn't like to rely on frozen fish.  We bought some freshly baked bread and some cheese made with unpasturized milk. The event was fairly well attended bearing in mind the on/off showery weather (below) I saw this advert for films,...

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Flying at 30,000 feet – sanity – Gossip – SMN ZOOM meet

[tta_listen_btn] View of the aircraft wing above the clouds at sunrise. My Christian friend and colleague David has done it again. What has he 'done'? He was there and present for me. As I mentioned yesterday he has to put up with my utterings and ramblings but I don't think he realises how much inspiration is released in my consciousness when "two or three are gathered together in My Name".  ...

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Ticket splitting and weeds

Bargain Fares? We are contemplating a trip to London in November so yesterday I went to Bath  rail station to look at the cost of two tickets return and with a rail card  the price quoted was £92 Today I  visited a ticket splitting site and I got the same journey for two people for £60 total.  The idea should be self-explanatory but it means that you can combine two separate journeys into one,...

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What makes a county show worth going to? – Dorset County Show, Dorchester

Today Sunday was the day for visiting Dorset county show which is an event held once a year for two days over a weekend, near to Dorchester. An unexpected Aladdin's Cave On the main road down for some reason I decided to turn off into a garden centre and an establishment that described itself as  a trading post.  It consisted of three elements, a coffee bar, and bric a bac  shop with an amazing...

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