Another fragment of a message from the Gargoyle has been intercepted, de-coded and translated: …should any of the vermin attempt to fast during this period they call Lent, you may think it right to tempt them with the thing they have vowed to give up. Sometimes this works, but more often it is counterproductive. Remember [...]

I’m doing a series of sermons for Lent at St Mary’s, Greenville. Click here for a link to the sermons. Last week’s for Lent 1 is available in text form. Go the box marked ‘page downloads’. Last week’s sermon was ‘To Fight or Not to Fight.’ Today’s and the rest of the series will be [...]

The international listening posts of the Central Lack of Intelligence Agency have unscrambled various messages that have been sent electronically from sources unknown to destinations that have yet to be specified. These messages were filtered out from the millions of electronic impulses radiating through the atomosphere. The messages were disguised and coded within the billions [...]

You’ve heard of the epidemic of mad cow disease in England a few years ago? It seems the disease has not finished, and has, in fact, passed into the human population. The happy result of this worrying trend is that there seems to have been a quantum leap in the intellectual capacities of both the [...]

Confiteo While running the race I stumbled and fellWent flat on my face, and spitting up dust,got up on my knees as others ran past.I’m down and out, and for all I can tell,the race is over. I’m finished. I’ve lost. Then another runner reached down and tookmy hand. He gave me a smile and [...]

What is art supposed to do, and I don’t mean Art Garfunkel. In a world obsessed with practicality, efficiency and the bottom line, does art have a function? First what do I mean by art? I mean any human activity where we are creative. Art would therefore include everything from cooking and gardening and crafts [...]