Things look good – no more dramas with the blog, so time to get back posting.

Blog needed some urgent maintenance so has been offline while I found time to do that. But I think I’ve got everything sorted now.

Simon Carey Holt’s reflections on the contemplative life meeting family was very helpful this week. See The man in orange | SIMPLY SIMON As I read it I was making connections between the point he raises from Wendy Wright’s ‘Seasons of a Family’s Life’ and the definitions of folk culture we talked about in The…

Links from the great Marmite crisis! Marmite Stock Running Out | Stuff.co.nz. New Zealand Marmite Shortage: Traders Cash In | Stuff.co.nz. How To Make Your Own Marmite | Stuff.co.nz. The English Can Cook: How to make your own Marmite. ‘No truth’ to Marmite stunt rumours – National – NZ Herald News. Marmite – Wikipedia, the…

This is clever. Take a street map of London and replace all the road names with song titles connected to locations. See Dorothy | Song Map Unlimited Edition.

Blue skies, a beach, a pool, good food, and family and friends. So much to be thankful for.

Still some snow on Southern Alps. Lovely views on flight down to conference this morning.

Related to last week’s posting Greenflame» Blog Archive » Election resources – 2011, there’s a joint church leaders’ release just out detailing their vision for New Zealand society. See Leader’s vision / Features / Anglican Taonga – Anglican Taonga. Interestingly, no Catholic presence in the signatories, though an election related statement from the Catholic church…

We’ve pretty much played Settlers of Catan and its expansions to death (though recently we’ve been playing the Settlers of America Trails to Rails variant a bit). However, there looks like there’s a new update coming out that explores the impact of exploitation in the game, giving it a bit of an ethical twist. Could…