Having watched three of my children in the year 6 musical that St Martin’s puts on each year I now get to go watch it because my daughter teaches year 6. This year’s production is called Rock Bottom. I think there’s something of a Flintstone’s meets a rambling search for something irrelevant with skit-like episodes …

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IN AFL, things are still falling out for a Richmond-Collingwood Grand Final. Which I have no interest in. As a last resort I’ve tipped them both. In AFL Brisbane were so close last week, but I think that the result for their season is beyond where everyone would have pegged them this year. Now to …

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My CD subscription copy of EMU Music’s new album Praise Without Ceasing arrived today. It’s a selection of hymns, with their classic tunes receiving arrangements from the EMU musicians. Newly composed choruses are pretty much absent. It’s nice to see these historic and substantial articulations of Christian faith being affirmed for contemporary use.

I don’t like being out of routine. It’s one of the reasons I find holidays discomforting. I mean they’re enjoyable and a bit restful and I do love seeing people, but I do like being home and being in my comfortable pattern. It’s some sort of control thing, so I do try to break it.