Well, the phone arrived on Monday, and it seems to be very nice. Small and sleek, yet also fast to use, and I do like the blue edge lights. I haven’t used it in anger yet, as it’s still locked to O2, but the unlock cable is due to arrive on Monday which will free […]

Quick update on recent books. Snow Falling on Ceders Borrowed off a friend at work. Actually really enjoyed it, although it bordered on being a bit too graphic for my liking. Attention all Shipping I don’t think travel books are my favourite genre, but this was a pleasing little read. It felt a bit like […]

Can’t say I rate the O2 website – except on price, I suppose. I ordered the phone, as you know, and got the usual flurry of confirmation e-mails. However, after a few hours, I got another e-mail that informed me said phone was in fact out of stock, that it would be shipped as soon […]

Needless to say I coulnd’t leave my Psalmic musings hanging, so I thought I’d start by doing a Google, and Lo and behold a nice exposition of Psalm 42 came up, by Ray C. Stedman. The whole page is worth reading, but his dealing with verse 7 resonates with my intuitive understanding of what the […]

At our work prayer group this week we were looking at Pslam 42 (As the deer…), and we all found ourselves tripping up over verse 7: Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me On one level I love this verse, as it’s so […]

Hoorah – my new phone is on it’s way. How can this be, you ask? Well, it turns out that O2 have a special web deal of said phone for eighty quid, which includes a free bluetooth headset. Ok so I don’t need a bluetooth headset, but this deal beat the pants off expansys’s 180 […]

On the subject of ‘free verse’ type music, how could I forget to mention Katie Melua? There are nine million bicycles in Beijing That’s fact, It’s a thing we can’t deny Like the fact that I will love you till I die It’s sort of displaying parallelism too – the Old Testament poetic metric of […]

I’ve identified something of a trend in my recent music ‘likings’ – many of them bend or break the traditional rules of rhyme and rhythm. For instance Juliet Turner lyric: I will not be leaving you cos that is not the way I do things Can’t get worse, might get better Has always been my […]

Phew – on holiday! Going to stay with my Mum in London, which will be the first time A. and B. have seen her since Easter, I think. My sister and neice are also popping over, so that’ll be lovely. The downside is that we need to pack, and try and think of everything Ben […]

Ooops – apologies for that double-posting; guess my blogging method is not foolproof after all! 🙂