If you live outside the UK
have you noticed how incredibly fashionable
the union flag has become? It’s on everything:
clothes, bags and even on all over a bus I took recently.
But I think the painter of the bus
got a little confused about the origin of the flag.
Alongside the red, white and blue of the British flag
were painted such icons of the United States
as a Native American chief and the Statue of Liberty!
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We are working away on next year’s curriculum in which we are going to teach the Bible as one story in six episodes: Creation, Fall, Israel, Jesus, the Church and the New Creation.
We produce 6 series a years, 8 lessons in a series (7 + a celebration which is a review).
So which 42 stories would you include? And why?
Answers on a postcard please.
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He is Dr Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist.
And by tackling the risk factors of alcohol and guns
he has succeeded in reducing the homicide rate in Cali,
Colombia’s third-biggest city.
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Almost every day I am charmed by the vividness
of the Spanish language.
Recently, a friend was talking about friendship –
in English we might say They are as thick as thieves –
and she said in Spanish:
They are fingernail and dirt.
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Remember this?
Ordinary mobile phones are called arrows here.
Well, recently I saw an advert for a smartphone
pressing us to “de-arrow ourselves”.
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This week in church they told us that the plot of land
on which the property stands was bought in 1913 for 13 pesos.
It was a significant plot in a very central location.
Today a bus ticket costs 1800 pesos.
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On the billboard at the bottom of the hill:
The only place where success comes before work
is in the dictionary.
Pleasingly, this is true in both Spanish and English.
But not in German.
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I spend a pleasant hour every Tuesday watching Father Brown,
a British series based on GK Chesterton’s stories.
I loved one of Father Brown’s lines in a recent episode,
which I think works for missionaries too.
Father Brown is setting off with Flambeau,
a potentially dangerous criminal, and his friend says
I don’t want you going with him on your own.
But, says Father Brown, I am never alone.
It’s a perk of the job.
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According to the BBC, Colombia and India are the countries
with the most public holidays: a whopping 18 public holidays a year.
(The UK has 8).
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English? he asked.
No, Scottish, I replied.
I saw a film once about William Wallace, he continued.
He had armies and built up a great empire in Europe.
I’ve driven taxis in lots of different cities.
I get the passengers to tell me the routes
and that’s how I get to know the place.
How many people do you think there are in Medellín?
7 million. There’s only 4 million in Panama.
Is England in Chicago?
Well, it’s been a pleasure to have you in my taxi.
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