Povey Prattle

1.     Ingredients: 2.      A wonderfully crusty ciabatta roll. 3.      Uncured (nitrate and nitrite free) black forest ham. 4.      Thinly sliced brie cheese. These simple sandwich ingredients were brought to perfection with a generous smearing of Branston Pickle.   (I thank my friend Muriel for bringing me a jar of Branston Pickle when she came back home from her recent visit to England).

... ......... please take me to Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH). I checked in there yesterday morning for my endoscopy/colonoscopy procedure and was required to give an electronic “palm scan” which will be entered into their files. As the admissions registrar explained “this means that if you are admitted to SMH in an unconscious state the hospital will be able to identify you by this palm scan”. So ...... when and if I am found unconscious, (even during a sermon), just drop me off at S.M.H.    The hospital records will reveal my identity to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My good friends Ron and Char Thompson drove me to SMH at 7:10 this morning, for my medical “procedures”.  I am grateful What they did not see were the cumbersome “paper work” (including the “palm print”) which preceded the medical treatments.  I must have signed my “John Hancock” at least ...

Wednesday 3 rd April 2013. My plans for the day. No solid food. Drink only clear liquids - 3 – 4 quarts throughout the day. Take 2 Dulcolax tablets in the early morning. 3: 00 p.m.  Drink a bottle of Miralax Powder with 32 oz of Gatorade  (8 oz of the solution every 15 minutes). Then drink another 32 oz of Gatorade within the next hour. No solid food all day, and nothing to drink after midnight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday 4 th  April 2013. My plans for the day. You guess.

I am certain that most of us who attended Church in these United States yesterday heard enthusiastic sermons about the new life which God offers through the death and resurrection of Jesus. I am all in favour of that! And yet ....  it can be a very selfish message - a message that says that "all's right with me and God", but which ignores the message of death which is promulgated by the American government. That message of death is exemplified in the profligate use of missiles fired from drones. George W. Bush began this policy, but it has been broadened and extended by Barack Obama (shame on him). The policy is promulgated in order to assure us of the targeted deaths of  the (supposed) enemies of America. (I doubt that any of these supposed enemies pose a real threat to our national security.) And as this video shows, the "targeted" missiles are incredibly inaccurate, and cause the deaths of children who do not even know a sing...

I should get to Church more frequently.   As I left the 11:15 a.m. Eucharist at St. Boniface Church, Siesta Key FL this morning I wished someone a Merry Christmas.   Ooops.