Great Barrier Reef alive and well by Churchmouse
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Wise words to an elderly lady complaining about her husband’s smoking and drinking by Churchmouse
Britain’s veteran television presenter Richard Madeley has a weekly agony uncle column in The Telegraph. Recently, a 76-year-old lady from Argyll and Bute in Scotland wrote to him complaining about her 73-year-old husband’s smoking and drinking. Excerpts of the letter and Madeley’s wise reply follow, emphases mine. Anon writes: I am 76 and I don’t […]
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England’s front gardens: the battle between plants and cars by churchmouse
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Euro 2020: football’s not home, but in Rome by churchmouse
Euro 2020: football’s not home, but in Rome July 12, 2021 in history | Despite all the excitement building up over the past week, on Sunday, July 11, 2021, England lost the Euro 2020 final to Italy 3-2 on penalties. England scored what was to be their only goal at 1:57 in, boosting their fans’ hope […]
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Forbidden Bible Verses — 1 Corinthians 16:5-9 by churchmouse
The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidden Bible Verses — ones the Lectionary editors and their clergy omit — examines the passages we do not hear in church. These missing verses are […]
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UK coronavirus news: only the Left want masks and lockdown to stay by churchmouse
UK coronavirus news: only the Left want masks and lockdown to stay This week’s coronavirus debates in both houses of Parliament are proof that only the Left want masks and lockdown to stay. Below are revealing excerpts from debates in the Commons and the Lords. Emphases mine. House of Commons Health Secretary Sajid Javid appeared […]
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UK coronavirus news: SAGE member’s communism revealed on breakfast programme by churchmouse
UK coronavirus news: SAGE member’s communism revealed on breakfast programme On Monday, July 5, 2021, Richard Madeley, an occasional co-presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB), asked SAGE member Susan Michie if her avowed Communism affects her coronavirus recommendations to the general public: … It must have come as a surprise to a number of […]
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UK coronavirus news: mask controversy mars possible Freedom Day reopening by churchmouse
UK coronavirus news: mask controversy mars possible Freedom Day reopening My post yesterday discussed the analysis of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid might announce on Monday, July 5, with regard to England’s Freedom Day, pencilled in for July 19. Speaker of the House Sir […]
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England’s Euro 2020 success revives notion of Englishness by churchmouse
England’s Euro 2020 success revives notion of Englishness It would be difficult to overstate how much England has been stomped on over the past 30 years and more. Britons are told that England does not exist; it is merely a collection of regions. The English are told there is ‘no appetite’ for an English Parliament. […]
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Fifth Sunday after Trinity — Year B — exegesis on the Gospel, Mark 6:1-13 by churchmouse
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity — Sixth Sunday after Pentecost — is July 4, 2021. Readings for Year B can be found here. The Gospel reading is as follows (emphases mine): Mark 6:1-13 6:1 He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 6:2 On the sabbath he began to […]
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