Sheila Bridge Blog
It only took 2 days for the 'New Phone Nightmare' to turn me into a very angry, teeth gnashing, chest-thumbing 'monkey'! The phone isn't the nightmare part. The nightmare is the gigabyte quantities of new information I am required to master before I can make the most of all the gadgets, widgets and apps that... Continue Reading →
I am about to go into pre-ordination 'hibernation' - (that would be 'on holiday' then) - and when I return to the blog it will be with a shiny new dog collar. Meanwhile I'll leave you with this, as near as I can get to something as serious sounding as a manifesto, a kind of explanation... Continue Reading →
'Warning: I have character defects and I'm not afraid to use them' This was the slogan on the fridge magnet I bought for my husband this week. It was part of a peace-offering because we had had a long distance 'disagreement' ( that would be a row then). I think the bottle of red wine went further... Continue Reading →
My mission, now I've chosen to accept it is to write 2,000 intelligent words on two passages from Romans. Here's my advice on how to write an essay: First, make yourself comfortable food: essay writing adds a whole new meaning to the phrase 'living hand to mouth' . Personally I find a large bag of popcorn is the ideal,... Continue Reading →
So I haven't being seeing very well for the last month... Why is this? I wondered? Old age? Eye strain brought on by too much blogging? Nah, none of the above. I've been wearing my contact lenses in the wrong eyes... again! D'oh! I've made this mistake once before but on that occasion it only took... Continue Reading →
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it but Bobby has (yet again) helped me solve a theological conundrum. I've been thinking about how we know stuff (see previous post Thinking without words) and what I've been wondering about is a phrase from Tom Wright. He says 'love is a way of knowing'? (Tom Wright Suprised by Hope 'Love is the deepest mode of knowing'... Continue Reading →
I really enjoyed yesterday's story about the Large Hadron Collider. Apparently after investing 'Mega-Enormous-Huge' amounts of money trying to find the 'God Particle' (Higgs bosun) scientists have announced that if they if haven't found it by the end of next year, it doesn't exist! To my untrained, unscientific ears this sounded very odd. What if... Continue Reading →
I'm back at college... more long words: epistemological, ontological and eschatological (loosely translated 'how did we get 'stuff'/what is 'stuff'/what will happen to 'stuff' in the end) I've been wondering whether it's possible to think without words? It must be: children who can't yet speak can still think. Even my dog 'thinks' but how do either... Continue Reading →
We have just stayed for a little under a week on the Isle of Wight in a bijou little cottage called Mrs Tiggywinkles. It was a size of a two storey double garage but that's where any similarity with a garage ended. It was really, really cute! Small but perfectly formed: porch for wellies, log-burning stove,... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I was out for most of the day. I had made arrangements for the dog and checked the train times in advance. Cycling to the station I had a vague feeling I had forgotten something. On arrival my suspicion was confirmed: I had left my mobile phone at home. This really shouldn't have mattered. I... Continue Reading →
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