2 February: 9.10pm

The greatest challenge of shopping in ASDA on a Saturday was not working my way through the crowds, or even avoiding running anyone [especially the children] over with our overfull trolley. It was in fact a challenge completely unconnected with a Saturday and common to every time I go shopping. I still can't work out the difference between a pound and a kilo - and in need to remember whether Kathryn is 20 kilos or 20 pounds in order to get the correct size of nappies. Believe me it has gone badly wrong before - in both directions. I guess it also connects with my inability to cook from a recipe book - mind you cooking from instinct has also occasionally gone badly wrong.

On a more serious note, as I prepare the prayer list each week, I think of the schools businesses, organisations and individuals that we'll be praying for. I guess that I know a certain amount about each of them. And as I get to know the community more I also learn more.

But then we also pray for our world and places of conflict. We're still praying for Burma, Pakistan and so many other places which, considering where they have been over the past few months, almost must still be in turmoil. Even with my obsessive reading of the BBC and other news websites there's still not much to find out - they've dropped off the news, but I still have a sense that we should be praying for them, so we do. Our prayers don't have to follow the news.

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BLOGGERS NOTE
You'll notice in this blog that I use clauses and sub clauses and square brackets and lots of other grammatical aberrations! Also that I can't spell. Jane sometimes compares my sentence structure to St Paul, going on and on and on... I'm afraid that you're going to have to live with it. I try to edit it all out when I'm writing for print, but I'm going to indulge myself here.