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Yum! 500g casserole beef 3 small onions, chopped into 8s 3 garlic cloves, chopped 300 ml passata 75 ml red wine 200 ml beef stock good squir...

Note to self: Should you ever wish to point out the depreciation in examination standards in recent years, the poor show made by modern stud...

...is that apparently the big house cost £1.4M. The smaller one would have been, at a guess, about £400K. So we're up to £1.8M. Buildin...

Feeling the need to blog more generally today. It's been a weird one today, both really quite good and really spectacularly bad On the p...

... can be found at major-jim.livejournal.com Mostly memes, fan fiction (Patrick O'Brian and Discworld so far, but watch this space) and...

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. OK, it's maybe not up there with the Archbishop converting to Islam (which he hasn't done, by the way, al...

Well, if Mrs TC can do this, why can't I? Prizes (of the feeling-smug-and-self-satisfied variety) to the best guesses... Meme rules: 1....

I've just been struck by a post on Sam Allberry's blog, which is here if you're interested. But in his final paragraph, he says...

A long time ago, in a land far away, there was a bank. That bank was generally well run, and even contributed a fair proportion of its profi...

Anyone else got an ISA with Northern Rock? Anyone else worried? So, on the one hand, if I panic like a frightened goose* and take my money o...

Well, not here, he hasn't. But he had in Menorca. Which is where we've been over the last week (well, from 31st August to 7th Septem...

I should know better. It's not good for my blood pressure. But I can't stand it any longer. Even more than The Archers, even more th...

It's rare that I open a newspaper (well, click on the correct button) without ending up far more depressed than before I did so. It'...

This is the recipe for an apple and cinnamon loaf cake that I made on Saturday. It came out, I have to say, rather well, and definitely didn...

So, back when the sun shone and the land was still above water (ah, those were the days), the missus and I went up to visit Zoe, a friend fr...

Ahem. That is to say, I'm back, everybody. Did you miss me? So, watch this space for photos of the other half and me in Glasgow on holid...

I don't know if you read the Times, as I do, but even if you don't, you can't have missed the recent uproar in the media regardi...

This is the text of a sermon that I recently gave at Stoke Poges Free Church . I found it harder to prepare than the one I gave on 2 Timothy...

Having been away for a while now, and greatly enjoyed it too (well, the holiday part of it anyway), I'm back! Expect more posts (possibl...

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