Lockdown once more and I’ve had to move my 12-year-old son so he’s in the same room as me, whilst he ‘home schools’. It seems that tinkering with the parental controls, blocking YouTube and his favourite gaming sites have not been fool proof enough. Big Mother needs to be watching him… At first, I felt […]
WARNING! Kids Joining Microsoft Teams …
Today we had the first ever experience of kids at our high school having LIVE lessons online. At 9 am, I tried to help my son navigate round MS Teams, a zillion messages were pinging between the members of his class as they tried to figure out what they needed to do. In fact, I […]
There’s Hope and Joy Yet! Even on our Landing.
ME: ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour, for he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.’ DAUGHTER: What the hell are you on about? ME: Don’t say ‘hell.’ like that. It sounds common. ‘For behold from henceforth, all generations shall call me blessed. For he that […]
Talking About local Heroes… The Rev Joseph Rayner Stephens
JOSEPH RAYNER STEPHENS: This is a recent article of mine on an incredible champion of the poor; whose life and times have been very much overlooked – probably because he was based in the north of England – and certainly because he spoke ‘truth to power’. “Very few are aware of what the factory system […]
Rather Arch Juxtaposition
I’m a diehard fan of The Archers. I enjoy writing my own scripts for them and pretending that I somehow live and dwell in a more working-class, West Yorkshire version of Ambridge. Yes, I have no shame, I realise this. With this in mind – I’ve created ‘The Archers Death Metal Band Name Generator.’ With […]
“HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE”*
Since lockdown (and putting societal emergency healthcare to one side for a moment) there have been countless column inches and observations in relation to the effects that these weeks may have on peoples’ mental health, both short and long-term. There have been amusing chatter and memes about how lockdown will crush the (majority) extrovert segments […]
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