There's a group appeared on facebook this week called 'No Fuel Day - 19th November'. I've been considering joining it, only I'd not be very good without fuel. Entertainingly I found it because Paul D joined it - and someone less l

Hmm. Have been a bit absent. Have had a lot to deal with, and haven't finished yet. All too busy, too tiring, too emotional and generally a bit crap. Ah well. Maybe I just need a holiday. And possibly a new job. And ideally some time to study. I&

People often seem a little confused about how I do what I do with a background like my background. It all seems pretty logical in small steps when it's explained, but I still think there are many who can't get their head around a medieval his

Have you ever struggled with a new relationship from a change to a long-standing relationship? I've had friends I knew out of work join the organisation so I've worked with them, and that was fine. I've made friendships out of work with p

When I was an undergraduate, I didn't understand, in fact hated with a passion, the compulsory course on Translation Theory. When I was a postgraduate, I realised that I understood translation theory, though possibly not courtesy of the course, a

Oh dear, I've done it again. Half a dozen impulses all ending up together in one post as I've not had time to write them individually.... Apparently the Church of England needs to encourage more people to train for ministry. It also wants to

There's something perhaps about the number of students coming from years out as army, or that it's just the natural alternative to being a law whore for a Hatfield male (and esp the historians) that makes me fear for them. I think the year I had nine

 Last night it was -6 when I came home. Easy to feel Swedish :-) On Tuesday the Hatfield staff went to have a lovely xmas lunch at Castle - good for gown-gown relations! Was beautifully laid out and decorated, and the food was beautiful. It was

(should have been 'thoughts from the bus', but Matt referred to my green halo this morning, and I quite like that. I've been going to work on the bus this week. Not by choice, as the new car has suddenly been expensively poorly and renault expensivel

Sorry, this is not me being excessively holy, just there's been a run on uploading material I have just written a book. Now you might be forgiven for thinking that this is hardly worthy of remark. After all, the Canon Professor can produce a work of

Finally! I've had the text of this for weeks, but it has only just made it to the webpage so I can link to it. Aren't there just days when you think "get out of my head!"? Whenever someone comes up to me and says ‘Can you do me a f

Not sure why I was listening to the radio this morning driving in, not the cd, but anyway, depressing radio 4 it was. Perhaps it was because it hadn't yet depressed me enough to switch to cd. Anyway, in this fabulous new world of knowing what is goin

Hmm. Chatting to the Hatfield Chaplain, before the Bishop's lecture the other evening, he noticed someone wearing a white poppy. I like white poppies, he said. You don't see them very often. Indeed. Interesting - and slightly provocative - article he

While I was at mum's in August, I read a pile of articles in the papers about stem cell research. Enough to mean to blog about it. Indeed, I even brought a cut-out article back with me for when I got chance. I never quite got round to it. But I saw t

Isn't it funny how you remember things? Or not remember things. Or what you remember completely differently about a moment (or a day or a week) from someone else? Especially if that 'moment' seems to have been a significant one... Damn.

Or not, since he has stayed immutably silent on whatever prompted him to blog this... I never got round to linking to this at the time, but I feel I should. And I shan't elaborate either on why here, why now. I think some of you may like svrmar fr st

All the nice girls love a sailor, huh? There's something about a uniform... I had a conversation with Phil last year about whether he treated vicars (visibly with collar) any differently to ordinary users. He said yes. (said conversation just happene

Oh dear, I'm so glad that I write this essentially and firstly and foremostly for me, because I'm not going to edit what I've written, indeed it's nice to have it on paper and out of my head, but I very nearly locked the posts after the first offline

Before I went to America I closed a couple of doors. One especially. Well I didn't exactly close it, I just let it swing to. No, that's not right either, I did consciously set out to do something, I just wasn't sure what. It was not long after the et

To start at the end (or at least at the current moment) and then to skip back and forth in life is so very  la muerte de Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes), which I've just added as a favourite book to my Facebook profile. I can honestly say that I s

This could be a long topic. Actually it could be several posts. You have been warned. It's one of those posts that has been fermenting for a while. and is going to end up being a collection of a few things. I'll try and separate them out, but I'