Entertaining TV programme last night about the struggles of TPE. I couldn’t work out why the makers smudged over the name on the Northern train that had derailed at Ardwick. Did Northern think the viewers wouldn’t notice that it was one of their trains that had held everybody up? Or did they want to charge to programme makers for depicting the logo, and the makers had refused? Or something else? Anyway, train operators will be facing a whole different set of problems now.
Hard work on the outward leg of my walk this morning, with a stiff easterly and bits of rain. It was not a fast walk, nor a particularly pretty one. Even in this weather, there’s quite a few people out first thing.
From the Lectionary… Just a little bit of a verse out of context. Jesus is sending disciples out to preach and heal and he says (among other things) this… “and you will be hated by all because of my name.” (Matthew 10:22). I’ve felt like that sometimes. But (i) it’s rarely true in our generation. Christians may feel persecuted way more than we actually are. (ii) Nevertheless, being hated is still a real thing, there will be some who hate us for various reasons, some, sadly, justified. The Jesus way is not a bed of roses: but it is life.
Also I saw a remote controlled lawnmower cutting the grass on the steep bank of Rhodeswood Dam. Good idea I thought. Then I saw two old-fashioned types being hand pushed on the identical incline near the bottom of the dam.