End-of-Tuesday links

It is late, and I have been at Deanery Synod even though I am not a member of Deanery Synod. Suspicious. Here are some end-of-Tuesday links for you: An open letter to Subway about their cheese, from ‘Left handed toons by right handed people’. (Scroll down the page to see the September 10th blog entry…

John Davies: Walking the M62

John Davies: Walking the M62

John Davies has now begun his two month walk along the approximate route of the M62 motorway. You can follow his travels on his M62 walk blog here. I have mentioned this before, but thought I’d mention it again as a reminder now he has started. This post explains why he is doing it. Do…

Saturday links

Make sure your Mother’s Day flowers are fair trade Because a lot of people are exploited in the growing of many of them. Thanks to Mad Priest for sending me this. His take on the subject is here. Stately Moans Really good blog by someone working in the stately home industry. Found this via Farli….

Various Tuesday links

I have not been well again today so have not had any energy to post anything constructive. Here’s what some other people have been saying: Poetry in motion, from velorution Video of cyclists speeded up in Cambridge. I’ve been meaning to link to the Velorution blog for ages. It is a shop in central London…

Links to peruse on a Saturday

Some weekend links: Shaggy Blog Stories: a collection of amusing tales from the UK blogosphere. “Next Friday (March 16) is Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day day in the UK. What I’m proposing is to assemble and publish – in the space of just seven days – a paperback anthology of blog writing, that can be…

Blogs which made me smile

Here are some blogs that made me smile over the last 24 hours. You probably read them already, but perhaps some of you don’t. Little Red Boat (link) Today’s entry: Colour me blindd Anna arranges her books in colour order. This book next to that book, poetry cheek by jowl with travel writing, etiquette rubbing…

Who reads the Anglican blogs?

A lot of the blogs commenting on current Anglican goings-on were kind enough to link to my Primates meeting cartoon series the other day. I thought it would be nice to link back to some of them and also interesting to see how many people clicked through to my site from the different blogs. I’ve…

On Saturdays I post links

On Saturdays I post links

Insecula.com: Take a 360 degrees look around various museums and galleries of the world. In French. Cartoons I have Known and Loved » stillbreathing.co.uk Chris is far too kind. the open office (found via The Complex Christ | Signs of Emergence: The Open Office ¦ Liturgy Share) A new project by the people at Vaux:…

Saturday is links day

Manna Bible online. Listen, study. Free audio downloads (found via Emergingchurch.info: The MannaBible Project) The Bible in a free to download form. Great idea, though I personally find the background music a distraction. It’s just the age I’m getting to. The Body of Christ could use some sleep (Or what the Church can learn from…

5 Saturday links

5 links for a Saturday: 1. ‘UNUSUAL SUSPECTS’… PROOST looking to find young creatives! « jon birch [creative journal] If you’re under 25 and looking for an outlet for your creative work (paid) this could be for you. 2. A Secret Sculpture This sounds brilliant, and it is happening just up the road from me…

Vote for JonnyB

Vote for JonnyB

JonnyB’s Private Secret Diary is up for an award in the 2006 Weblog Awards UK section. You can vote once a day up to a maximum of one time on any one day. Every vote for JonnyB is a vote for blogs about everyday goings on as opposed to all the political ones which are…

Causes for reflection

Today is World Aids Day. My thoughts are with my friends in Swansea who are mourning the loss of their friend, Michael Blakey. I didn’t know him, but their tributes are powerful: Wood, Alice, Richard, Sarah, Jacqui, Malcolm. Today marks the start of Advent (or at least Advent calendars). I have still not decided how…

Bloggers for Martin Luther King

Bloggers for Martin Luther King

A number of bloggers have been dismayed to find that a white supremacist site site containing untruths shows up very highly (No 2 for me) when one does a Google Search for ‘Martin Luther King’. The site in question is martinlutherking dot org which I’m not going to link to and I’d ask you not…

Being creative (3)

Part three in a hastily thrown together selection of links. People who don’t do their drawings on paper: indexed Graph-like things on index cards. gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Hugh draws on the back of business cards. (His work may contain strong language at times.) gapingvoid: how to be creative Hugh’s…

Being creative (1)

A hastily thrown-together set of links. We’re going away for a few days and so I’m just going to leave some links in the fridge for you to heat up. They are all of the vague theme of ‘being creative’. Nick Page » Ideas and Creativity Nick has written lots of books, mostly Christian sort…

Around the blogs this lunchtime

I am waiting for the opportunity to have lunch to arrive. In the meantime, various things I’ve read on blogs of a vaguely Christian persuasion over the last few days: Tractorgirl is coming around (in this post) to the view that the best blogs are not the “more oft read, better written ones”. She cites…

Going back to the ASB

Refrains. Sweet mother of Vernon, I KNOW these are traditional parts of Christian public worship, but has anybody actually sat down and thought about what’s the point of them? Seriously. Dyfrig goes back to the ASB. (The ASB – the The Alternative Service Book 1980, now superseded by Common Worship as the book us Anglicans…