It’s Time for a Revamp!

I started this blog just over two years ago so I think it’s about time I started making a few changes to it. It won’t be a complete redecoration, but more of a spring clean (or should that be an “autumn tidy-up”?).

I have already made a few tweaks – for a start I’ve inserted a link to my photo gallery on Flickr – and the blogroll will undergo some tidying up fairly shortly. But the major change is that this blog will now focus solely on the business of writing, editing and proofreading, with a few funnies thrown in to keep you amused.

To deal with my spiritual life as a member of the Bahá’í Faith I have created another blog – The Tiverton Bahá’í. However, this website is still under development and over the next few months I will be spending some time providing content that is worth reading and worth your while revisiting the site for. But in the meantime you might like to visit some of the other Bahá’í blogs and websites that I have created links to in The Tiverton Bahá’í blogroll.

Leave a Message on God’s Answerphone

Don’t you wish that in times of trouble you had a direct phone line to God so that you could pour out all your woes to Him in the same way as you do with your friends and family. Well, now you can, for at least the next six months!

According to a report on the BBC NEWS website, artist Johan van der Dong has set up an art installation in the Dutch town of Groningen that includes a facility for visitors to call a specially designated mobile-phone number and leave a message for God on ‘His’ answerphone.

Van der Dong explained to reporters from Radio Netherlands that his aim was to show people that God is available everywhere and at any time. They didn’t need to attend churches in order to speak to God through prayers. Instead they could just make a phone call and state their wishes in a thoroughly modern way. He promised that all the messages would remain confidential and that he wouldn’t be listening to any of them. Instead, the messages would be ‘a secret between the Lord and the people who are calling’.

According to the BBC, in the first week there were 1,000 messages left on the answerphone.

If this idea takes off, perhaps God will have to set up a call centre staffed by angels! But please, not in India!