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Free blog facilities to help Mothers’ Union develop and debate

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

I’m chuffed today to find Mothers’ Union Diocese of Winchester featured as the first ‘Website of the Month’ by Corbin Featherstone of Mothers’ Union enterprises. When I started www.muwinchester.org.uk nearly two years ago, I had become convinced by friends that WordPress, … Continue reading →

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Is it me, or is the programme?

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

OK I’ve been having a problem recently, as you will have been able to tell from the layout of the last couple of posts, with getting things to layout clearly, with all the gaps and paragraphs I want. If I … Continue reading →

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Make over

Posted on May 13, 2010 by

To celebrate the success of the final essay and the fact it is spring, and inspired by the new WordPress theme ‘Twenty Ten’ I’ve given the blog a bit of a make over. The new header photo was taken by … Continue reading →

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Possible new blog layout for future

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

Just a note to myself to take a better look at Titan a new WordPress blog theme that looks like I might like it – but not till after that essay is nailed!

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Using my first droid

Posted on March 3, 2010 by

Spotted today that an android app for WordPress was launched last month so thought I’d make it my first marketplace download. So as my first posting via the droid what can I do? Photo (hopefully) of Wolvesey in Winchester in … Continue reading →

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Blogging to build community

Posted on August 31, 2009 by

For the seven years I have been involved in communicating on behalf of Mothers’ Union, I have used the following as my inspiration: “Proclaim the mystery of Christ… clearly. Be wise in the way you act towards outsiders; make the … Continue reading →

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Note to self – loading a ‘theme’

Posted on March 5, 2009 by

From skype with Alec, to load a theme into the Mothers’ Union blog: control panel at Zen you are looking for a directory called “wp” subdirectories wp-content/themes, or similar the zipfile content needs to be unpacked and put in there. … Continue reading →

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Where we lack knowledge

Posted on March 5, 2009 by

Two things happened yesterday which involved me simply not knowing enough to have avoided the problem. Firstly, a call from my son Chris’s school explained that the reason I had not had an invoice for his Grade 3 Oboe exam … Continue reading →

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The Ascension

Posted on February 22, 2009 by

Here’s another sermon, this time dated from 13th May 2007, back in the first year of my Reader Training. This one is an audio file, which usefully comes including the Bible reading that preceeded it: Acts 1:1-14 Ascension – waiting … Continue reading →

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Does it have legs?

Posted on February 18, 2009 by

My vicar is an engineer and likes to operate electronically to the extent I knew he read various Christian blogs. I also know he wants to update our parish website when the webmaster isn’t doing Reader Training like myself, and … Continue reading →

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