It's that time of year again in Australian schools. The time when a large swathe of students sit our National Assessment Program... and the time just after that, when the writing component is marked by a slightly smaller swathe of teachers. Myself being one of them. This could explain the reason while I'm unusually feeling …
Sting. You can recognise his voice anywhere. Even if you're walking through a shopping centre as I was the other day when an unmistakable timbre resounded through the centre's PA system. I knew it was him, but I couldn't pick the song. Unusually for me, I pulled out my phone and let it do the …
Continue reading #177 This is the sound of a Biblical allusion
I've been reading the Psalms lately (the whole year) and read Psalm 126 yesterday. Towards the end, the psalmist makes a request: "restore our fortunes LORD, like streams in the Negev." It's a cry to God for goodness to be abundant, and favour to be bestowed. It's also some cracking imagery. Australians are very familiar …
I hit the Netball courts for the first time this season, this weekend. Two rounds had already gone by hindered by the rain for most, and more than hindered by Covid for me. I felt a bit 'out of it', umpiring for the first time in a while. I did some umpiring in the first …
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