Here are some pix from yesterday. 6:15 in the morning and the boys are up to check out their gifts. Paintball stuff was at the fore. Tim got a new paintball gun marker and Joe a laser sight. I received, from Joe, some “Ting.” Ting is a grapefruit drink from Jamaica which I developed a … Read more
Great day, even though we only had my mother over for the day, having seen my brother Phil and his family last night. And my brother Jim who spent a couple of nights with us, spent today day with his two boys. More pictures tomorrow, but here’s a nice one of Tim helping my mother … Read more
Some views of Christmas trees world-wide. Thank you Bernadette for sending me these. Rockefeller Center in NY city – Trafalgar Square. The tree is a gift from Norway – they’ve been sending a Christmas tree as a gift since 1947 as a token of thanks for Britain’s aid in World War II In Tokyo And … Read more
Catholics only make up about 10% of the population in Great Britain. A distinct minority. However, in terms of Church pracitise, they are now the largest. Britain has become a ‘Catholic country’ – Telegraph Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should … Read more
This should be good news; we’re one of the few developed countries with a "replacement rate" fertility level. But not everyone is happy about it … It’s mentioned in the excerpt; you’ll have to hit the link for the last paragraph quoting some environmental sourpuss. U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population – washingtonpost.com … Read more
Here’s some shots of Tim in his Santa outfit, as he headed to school this morning. I think he’s a dead ringer for Santa, although perhaps Santa with a tan?
Brigid’s big birthday present finally arrived (please ignore the rest of the garage!) yesterday – eight days late. Here’s what it looks like, wrapped up in it’s shipping mummy. Will unpack it over the weekend.
On Tuesday the local Gannett newspaper had a nice feature story on one of my former high school teachers, now Monsignor Thomas Shelley. the article was about his just-published history of the NY Archdiocese. It’s a good article – A new history of the Archdiocese of NY tells the Catholic story of the last 200 … Read more
Fr. Groeschel is kind of the Faranda Family Guru. Brigid and I have known him since about 1990, Tom Faranda’s Folly: The official Guru of the Faranda family, featured in NY Times article although we’ve only seen him a few times since his near-fatal accident a number of years ago. We were involved in a … Read more
The past weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal had a long front page article about a family working with many physicians to extendthe life of their son. It’s really a great article, which unfortunately is not available unless you are a Wall Street Journal subscriber. I am putting the link in, because sometimes these … Read more