May 31 2011

What you find in the mail

It’s  amazing how quickly we forget. Less than 3 decades ago no-one had heard of email. When someone said “mail”, they meant a letter in the post. A hand-written, hand delivered piece of communication that couldn’t be rushed; couldn’t be followed up immediately; couldn’t be tracked instantaneously. It had to be posted in faith, and received physically, emotively.

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May 8 2011

April Showers

Apparently “April showers bring May flowers” is a well known expression in the Northern hemisphere, and seems to indicate that they are more aware of the treachery of April than I have been. April, in a word, “sucked”, and I’m boycotting it – hence the date on this post! It wasn’t pretty. I won’t bore you with a full list of the ills attributable to this fickle month, but I do want to tell you about the end of my love affair with my car. Continue reading