Life of Wiley

Happy New Year dear readers! I hope you all had a good holiday. Christmas for the Wiley household was had in Watford this year. Although Louise was a bit apprehensive about my volunteering to cook the Christmas dinner in the end it all passed off really well. We had Louise’s parents down for Christmas itself [...]

It looks like the episode of Dr Who to be shown on Christmas Day is going to lead to a sleepless night as I’ve promised Euan he can stay up to watch it!

It had to happen (well it did a while ago now); the minute I offer to host someone’s website my DSL modem packs up! Unfortunately I am on a BT managed service from Demon. I say unfortunate, not from the Demon experience, but from the BT managed bit, because the modems they supply are/were atrocious. [...]

green LA girl invites folks to take up The Starbucks Challenge where we have to go into a Starbucks coffee shop and simply ask for fair trade coffee and report on the results. So I was up in Glasgow earlier this week. Glasgow airport has a Starbucks so I thought I’d take up the challenge. [...]

1st of November and Starbucks have already started playing Jingle Bells:(

We had a lovely time in Cardiff last weekend. It was particularly good to meet up with old university friends whom we’d not seen for nearly 10 years. We stayed in the renovated or newly built bay area which seemed to be tastefully done with plenty of restaurants and bars to satisfy all tastes. The [...]

We were deeply saddened to learn of the death of our close friend Peter Cannon early on Saturday morning. He will be deeply missed by many, many people whose lives were regularly touched by his caring generosity and hard work. Peter was a very prominent member of the Methodist community in Watford as well as [...]

If you’re politically inclined and like to know that the MP voted for in your consistuency are doing a good job representing you in Parliament then you can now track them using a RSS feed at They Work For You. Just enter your post code and the site gives you the low-down on your MP; [...]

Yesterday marked the beginning of One World Week. I encourage you to take a look at their list of 40 promises (PDF) and promise yourself that you’ll do at least one of them. I used this in the service that I preached (PDF) yesterday at Kings Langley Methodist Church.

Please can ask for your thoughts and/or prayers for a dear friend of ours, Peter Cannon, who has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour. He’s currently in the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital in London receiving excellent care and he is in very good spirits.