This Is Not My Home

Beckie is revising. That is all. Normal service may be resumed shortly.

I was thinking today about how I am the latest in a long family line of eccentrics. My grandfather, for example, used to think that a double...

The first: chocolate swirl buns. Mr Peyton's sweet bun dough, with the addition of 25g of dark cocoa powder (and 25% less yeast, as I...

For a seasoned (sinful) worrier, such as me, this hymn holds great balm and sober reminders laced into its lines. What a friend we have in...

Dedicated readers of my blog (all four of you) have probably noticed "A New Name" in my blog reel/side-bar. I forget how I came t...

Yellow garden roses... In a measuring cylinder. I think it makes a rather fetching "single-stem" style vase. What do you think?

The husband of a friend from Theological College: Reverend Barr-Hamilton Inspire a generation? (via: The Vicar's Wife )

Most of the moving is over, although myriad boxes seem still to litter the house! Sometimes, however, time in the kitchen is more necessar...

Once again I am surround by boxes and bubble wrap (well, actually less of the latter than the former, because it's too much fun to pop) ...

This hymn by John Newton exemplifies how we can pray in complaint to the Lord, and His wonderful answer. I asked the Lord that I might gro...

This is a new song to me, but the Computer Geek was listening to it and I was struck by the lyrics. How few of our songs and hymns acknowled...

This Flickr group has been making me smile today. All sorts of exciting items made from the bits of fabric we normally throw out. Less wa...

Most of my recent posts have been rather cookery heavy, so I thought I'd take a break and show you something different. Pattern from...

The loaf. Half the Fabulous Baker Brothers recipe with twice as much salt (their recipe has so little salt it tastes a bit odd), in a li...

This is not speedy in the "reach into fridge and consume" sort of way, but in the "Jamie's 30-minute meals" sort of...

Firstly (and off the titled topic) I am happyified (yes, I am aware that's not a word, but for some reason "pleased" didn'...

Really, this adventure was what all the other adventures had been leading up to. You see, ever since I had wonderful, Kosher, bagels in New ...

"Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come an...

"But He was pierced for our transgresions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by...

I have a habit of becoming fixated on one thing for a while, obsessed, almost, before something new and exciting catches my attention. This ...