Two Steps forward, One back

I'm now at home on the farm trying to do some stuff and today has been a day of good and bad stuff.
The Good stuff

1. I fixed the lawn mower 
2. Successfully cut the lawn
3. Solar shower is now installed on a living tree with no chance of it being cut down
4. I can buy a snow plough directly from the company

Bad stuff

1. Hot tub has been chewed by mice - This needs a lot of care and love to repair
2. New car is back at the mechanic again 
3. Lawn sweeper and trailer for lawnmower will cost £240 in shipping - Have to find local alternatives

Some progress is better then no progress and still feeling the happiest I have for a long time

Dumbing of Ages

Dumbing of Ages is a webcomic which i am particularly fonder of. I mainly discovered it from reading shortpacked.com.
The current story is about the characters going to to church (in between a running plot) and their reactions to it.
What strikes me the most is the way that the Author seems to have experienced the conflict between church/God and the church not being the place where anyone can come Unfortunately, I would say that this

(http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/avoid/) is the most common experience that the people have - But I'm trying to change this :)

Kiss this!

 Watch this video

Who would have thought that Gene Simmons could speak Hungarian so well? Who else knows what else lies behind the Grease paint?

All Quiet on the Blogging front

There has not been a post for ages - Sorry!

This week there will be lots of updates as we are going to get one of our piggies butchered.

We'll have lots of meat as the pig is about 200kg!!! I'll post updates/photos/etc

Right off now to bake some fresh bagels to be served with fresh butter and fried eggs :)

Wonderwoman II

And if by magic, the internet comes up with this!

WonderWoman

I've been watching loads of justice league unlimited(JLU) and thoroughly enjoying it! For those of you(s) who aren't geeks  DC comics have rebooted their universe (started from a Blank canvas again) and one of the comic review caught my eye. It basically said Wonder woman is one of the most important characters of the DC universe (Batman and superman making up the holy trinity) but there are no decent stories/comics with the classic tale which involves wonder woman. This kinda of idea creeps throught out the whole of the DC universe and eventually leads to the bigger question "what do we do with Wonder woman?" Do we make her into a female superman who is strong and tough but not superman, so he can save her; do we make her a man-hater a strong feminist or do we make her into the token eye candy(when was the last time you saw a flat-chested, non-curvy plain wonder woman)

Now you might think I am crazy to dedicate a blog episode to this but as I was thinking about these Issues, I realised that maybe these issues aren't super hero related but for all of womankind. Take for example sport, Woman athletics have to be glamourous for them to be taken serious Sepp Blatter thinks that woman's footballers should be more "femamin"(http://tinyurl.com/6z3mmxk). Beach Volley - Everyone watches because they love volleyball! If they did, indoor volleyball would be so much more popular and taken off.

This questing of the role of women in churches is another example - Every good pastor needs a trophy wife, but as long as they are not causing problem/headlines it is ok! Heck, we can even give a job which isn't that important! The The idea of a woman leading in a new direction is dangerous and what would happen if she had a new story ....

So would the real wonderwoman step forward and show us all the way?

Thoughts about the current world

You bring up war, poverty or famine in a conversation you'll find a barren vacuum of opinion.You announce what kind of phone you have and you 'll spend the next hour enduring an obnoxious holy war

Shamelessly stolen from theoatmeal