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Saturday, July 29, 2006
ARRIVING IN LONDON - June 28
Our arrival in London was fraught with our typical perils of Pauline, including learning that the company we rented our car from in the States didn’t exist in England, and ending up being charged double what we’d agreed when we reserved on the Web. But, we DID get to our friend’s house in Hackney…...
Thursday, July 27, 2006
IGHTHAM MOTE - July 14
In which we visit the “ancestral seat”, celebrate a birthday, and support the National Trust with more than membership. A branch of Gail’s family owned this moated manor house for almost three hundred years…..
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
BRIGHTON, and FINDING FAMILY IN WADHURST - July 13
Today we found the Nightingale Theater in Brighton, and Thor’s friends (now ours, too) in Wadhurst. Outside the theater we saw a sight that made me (at least) think a little about the people within…...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
SCIENTISTS OR TRUE BELIEVERS…..?
The “global warming” community is going to have to decide which they are, I think. I’ve posted about this before, and anyone reasonably open to the data already is agnostic about the man-made, runaway greenhouse that Al Gore, the gunuflecting media, and a certain cadre of “scientists” seem determined to force into the belief system of the American people and the world.
But here’s the latest from the actual peer-reviewed scientific literature, as opposed to the editorial columns of Science, or the latest scary newspaper headline, or Al Gore’s “blockbuster” movie:
“the warmest year in the extended Greenland temperature record [was] 1941, while the 1930s and 1940s [were] the warmest decades.” What their work shows is that there has been no (that’s zero) net warming in Greenland for the last 75 years.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
STOP TEST-DRIVING YOUR GIRLFRIEND…..
This is really quite good, and especially needed since the ‘60s - a most unfortunate “gift” from my generation to the world….
Perhaps someone can explain why the female of the species puts up with it!
http://boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001306.cfm
Stop Test-Driving Your Girlfriend
by Michael Lawrence
“How do I know if she’s the one?”
I can’t think of a question I encounter more often among single Christian men. The point of the question is clear enough. But a rich irony dwells beneath the question. In a culture that allows us to choose the person we’re going to marry, no one wants to make the wrong choice. Especially if, as Christians, we understand that the choice we make is a choice for life.
The question is not merely ironic. If what you’re after is a marriage that will glorify God and produce real joy for you and your bride, it’s also the wrong question. That’s because the unstated goal of the question is “How do I know if she’s the one ... for me.”
Thursday, July 13, 2006
ARTS and CRAFTS, LITERARY COTTAGE, and YES, *ANOTHER* CASTLE! - July 12
I haven’t taken time to write much but a summary, but here is a photo…
This is Standen House, looking at the entrance with a medieval farmer’s cottage on the right that Webb incorporated rather than demolish. It’s SO peaceful and filled with joy. We loved it. The gardener had put out new potatoes and zucchini for anyone to take, leaving a donation. We had them for supper.
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LORD HAW-HAW’S PLACE, THE LAST ENGLISH KING, AND PEVENSEY CASTLE - July 11
We saw the site where the English lost their island to the French (who were really assimilated Vikings!), and learned a lot of about the complicated story of just how that got set up and then climaxed in the Battle of Hastings (1066). Then we went to one of the early fortifications of the Roman invasion, later refortified and reused…..Check it out:
This is the West Gate of the Roman fort—HUGE walls with towers all around, and standing here almost 2,000 years. The castle inside was made much later, of course….begun by William on his arrival from France.
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- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
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- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
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