BIG NEWS

This’ll be my final post until I return from my holiday (vacation) and oh boy, have I something BIG to say :-)
No. I’m not getting married.
No, I’m not having a baby.
No. I have not become less irritating.
No. I did not eat the naan bread I just dropped on the floor ….well umm, [...]

Ego, I-go

So you want to know more about me do you? Well I tell you what I’ll do, I’m going to write one of those egoistic posts all about myself and bore you all rigid. I’ll start at 1 and add more an more henceforth until you can all cure your insomnia by reading it [...]

Abbie Update

Mum and Dad took Mandy to the hospital to spend some time with her baby yesterday. Here’s a photo of Mum holding Abbie. The doctors and the family are delighted with this little fighters’ progress. She is now having up to 8 feeds a day and is looking really well. Mandy [...]

Forum Fun

Here’s a fun endeavour. I haven’t started it at the best time because of my forthcoming holiday (vacation). But you know me by now, i’m impulsive.
Take a look around. Stick your toe in the water and we’ll see where it goes. If it turns out to be a load of crud, [...]

Anxiety

I found a lump in my breast a few years ago and was referrred to the hospital for tests. On the day of the appointment Mum came with me to keep me company and to offer support. After mamograms, scans and even a needle biopsy (without anaesthetic! ouch!) we sat around in [...]

My baby

Why oh why is it that the minute my dog got on the examination table at the vetinary surgery yesterday, she decided that she would give the vet a poop parcel ? Did she perhaps have a premonition that only moments later he would be taking her temperature? Did he take her temperature [...]

Upon my heart

Picture of Lighthouse taken in North Wales 2006
Please join me in prayer for the following intentions. You may like to add your own in the comments box and they will later be added to this post, so that all who visit Ukok’s Place may pray for your intentions.
… for Liam who at 4 years [...]

Abbie Update

Yes, it’s all change again with the blog template. Hope I’m not making you all too dizzy :-) For your information, archives and links are now at the bottom of the page to give the blog a less cluttered look, the previous blog template was playing havoc with the ‘daily chronic [...]

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord

Further reading on the Solemnity of The Annunciation of the Lord.
The Magnificat
My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden, For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.For [...]

Thoughts, prayer requests and evening prayers

I was unable to post yesterday because it was downright hectic and when I did finally get a chance to do so I was seriously tired and the inclination was waning considerably. After I finished work I went out to buy a gift for the son of one of our UCM ladies. This [...]

Love Parcels.

There was a time when overeating was my only ‘release’, nowadays I enjoy having some ‘downtime’ in a much more healthy and beneficial way. I still do overeat, but not perhaps to the extent that I would if I did not have the cardmaking bug. But it’s just so much fun to craft things [...]

Evening Prayers for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Evening Prayers for Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent
O God, come to my aid.O Lord, make haste to help me.Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.Amen.
Psalm 143 (144)For victory and peace
Blessed be [...]

An indefencible position to be in.

I hesitated before posting this entry, and perhaps I should have hesitated longer and then I would have decided against posting it altogether. However, it isn’t the content, but the message behind the content that spurs me on to write about the bizarre situation I found myself in yesterday.
Apologies in advance if this grosses [...]

Abbie Update/ Evening Prayers

It’s been a while since I’ve given an update on my cousin’s premature baby, but I was awaiting news and now I have it :-) Abbie has now been moved to a ‘high dependency’ room according to my Mum who visited her in hospital today. She is still managing to breathe unaided, [...]

The Slow Dance

Now, as many of you know, I don’t have a husband myself, but if I did, I would hope that I would trust him enough to allow him to lead me. When I say, lead me, I don’t mean dominate me, there’s a vast chasm of a difference between leading in love, and [...]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…

Above is an image of my snow covered back garden at something past midnight last night, trust me, it looks so much better both covered in snow and in darkness. Yes, almost out of nowhere the snow appeared. My car was covered in a 5 inch deep pile of the soft stuff when [...]

Mothering Sunday and Night Prayers

It’s Mothering Sunday over here in the UK and I was delighted to have my lovely children wake me up this morning with a cup of tea and brioche breakfast in bed. Even the dog joined us for a big cuddle. I know that not all Mother’s Days will be like this so [...]

Changes abound

Firstly, for those of you for whom it is still Saturday in your part of the world….Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Now as to the title of this post…Changes abound….
We’re switching to Evening Prayer on this blog for the remainder of Lent as opposed to the Morning Prayer that i havbe been attempting (and sometimes failing) to [...]

How they suffer, these little children/ Morning Prayers for Friday in the Third week of Lent

For more about Abbie, please read Abbie’s Dad’s comment which can be found here on my blog.

Life News – or lack of it (life, that is)
Here, here for Tory MP Angela Watkinson who believes that it should be made legal for the parents of children under the age of 16 to be made aware of [...]

Hi folks

Hi all.  Glad you’ve found your way here

The Murder of Father Paul Bennett C of E Vicar/ Morning Prayers

For more about Abbie, please read Abbie’s Dad’s comment which can be found here on my blog.

Lord, have Mercy!

“Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a vicar outside his church.
Father Paul Bennett, 59, was found dead at St Fagan’s Church of England in Trecynon, near Aberdare, south Wales.
South Wales Police have [...]

Tom McNulty/ Morning Prayers for Wednesday in the Third week of Lent

On retreat Sr. Bridie told us a fascinating story about a millionaire businessman who had lived a life without faith, but through the grace of Our Lord, had experienced a road to Damascus style conversion to Christianity. A family man,Tom McNulty lived a hard working, hard drinking lifestyle. With all his money [...]

Sacred Space/ Morning Prayers for the Third Tuesday of Lent

Photo taken at Trentham Gardens 2006
Is there a sacred space for God in your life each day? A time when it’s just you and him, with no distractions? I know that I don’t always live up to my intention to give over each day to God and though I should find that ‘quiet time’ [...]

Update on Abbie and Morning Prayers for the Third Monday of Lent

Mandy conveyed to Mum on the phone yesterday just how deeply touched the family are with all your prayers and comments about/for Abbie. I know that many of you even though you’ve not commented for one reason or another – perhaps you’re just passing through – have remembered her in prayer, others [...]

Morning Prayers for the Third Sunday of Lent

To my great delight, I returned home from the retreat yesterday to discover two of my daffodils in flower. Now this may sound pretty paltry to any gardeners out there, but I am not a green fingered in the least and in my poor excuse for a garden, this is in fact, [...]