Paula's Place

  It's Christmas eve, in many places I know this is in many ways the bigger day than Christmas day itself. The Germanic ideal of Christm...

The outside of the Church My last post left you all a little bit up in the air, for the really perspicacious of you yes I was in Paris. The ...

 An anonymous reader asks:- There are some people who will claim 'God does not make mistakes'. Given that you are what you are how d...

We have reached Christmas Eve and it suddenly feels as though it has come upon me all too quickly even though by doing this Advent calendar...

Here in Malta Christmas is still very much a Christian festival, of course as I showed yesterday there are all the lights and decorations...

I haven't been going to Church as much as I would like to recently. Between trips to Norfolk to my friend's boat, Sunday morni...

I know I must sometimes sound like a cracked record, going on and on about how busy I am, while all that busyness is my own fault because...

It's been a busy old weekend, already and it's only just lunch time on Sunday!  Yesterday afternoon I went up to town for a meeti...

After what feels like a very busy week, but in fact only included three full days of work, last night I slept for about twelve hours. I wou...

After spending yesterday being visible today I will be celebrating Easter, this is not just another holiday, a chance to get drunk as the...

This was of course written for general Church consumption, but this can be a difficult area for many LGBT+ people as we so often find ou...

This is shaping up to be a very busy few days, giving that I was not expecting to be rehearsing with the WOW Orchestra today, or playing to...

I have not felt much like posting this week ~ for many reasons which I will not be going into just now.  But I will continue with my Lent...

2 . I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth This is the fundamental statement from which all others lead, w...

I am in the strange position of having to face up to a few life changing decisions at the moment, in some way these decisions are a reflect...

Gratuitous photo of Courtney Lawes Given the title of this post, and the date I would excuse anyone for thinking that this might be abo...

With "new" Hair Cut I wasn't going to do this, but when it started to snow yesterday I felt that maybe I needed to do ...

When I first moved I carried on going to the Church I joined a few years before.   The members are friendly the preaching challenging and I...

The two things that have consistently played a major role in my life, since way before puberty into what I like to think of as my middle ag...

Saturday at London Pride was simply fantastic, or should that be fabulous?   After enjoying the parade we headed for our regular refuge at ...