In their movie from 2019, Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis explore the premise of a world without The Beatles (except the main character, who remembers them and rips them off/ recreates them to share with the world). The film itself has the sentimental kitsch often associated with Curtis, but is…
Jet Set Willy
It’s amazing what you find behind the sofa on Xmas Eve. Those sounds are incredible. Maybe I should make some kind of rave anthem out of them.
12 Steps & 12 Questions
Someone in recovery put me on to these podcasts and I really get a lot out of them for a “meeting between a meeting” recovery connection – Silvio is a very personable and engaging interviewer. I’m listening to 12 Steps & 12 Questions – Patrick McA (AA) on Podbean, check…
Step 4 Inventory Sheets
These sheets were devised from the Joe and Charlie Big Book Studies circa late 1990s. The first three columns are the same ones in the Big Book, listed in Chapter 5. The fourth column refers to the instruction: “Referring to our list again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs…
The Great Spirit Prayer
The Great Spirit Prayer is translated from a Native American Lakota Chief called Yellow Lark: Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind, whose breath gives life to all the world. Hear me, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyesever…
Set Aside Prayer
I came across this prayer recently when they read it out at the beginning of a recovery zoom meeting. It has also been added to the “My Spiritual Toolkit” app. Some days I think I know it all and other days I think I don’t know anything and feel like…
Book Reviews
Read more
China in Ten Words
Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3s80ACo I can’t even remember how I came across this book but I have had a nascent curiosity about China for a while now. It has always seemed such an enigmatic and baffling country and culture, so removed from our Western history yet so influential in the modern…
The Primrose Cafe
Primrose Cafe, Clifton Just over 21 years ago, I went along on a date to this cafe tucked away in Bristol to meet someone I had emailed online, using a free dating page operated by Venue Magazine. Venue was the “What’s On” of Bristol and sadly shut down a few…
Step 1 – Part 3: Unmanageability
This paragraph below is taken from Chapter 4 – “We Agnostics”. Whilst it is not directly stated, it is generally used in the Fellowship as a good guideline for the ‘unmanageability’ bit of Step 1. “We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were…