Welcome to my blog...whatever image springs to mind, be it a hippopotamus, Tigger, red-haired Highland cattle, or a simple kitchen table, 'Unless a Seed' is a four-legged creature. My hope is that having read a Book Review, a Poem, or a What is a Christian? or some random post in Everything Else, you will be kind enough to leave a comment or a short reply. And I hope you enjoy reading its contents
What is a Christian?
Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews
Poetry
For Writers, Writing and Everything Else
A Two Books Review: The Spark of My Womb, B. Coil The Gift of Being Yourself, David G. Benner
A Two Books Review - two very different books dealing with overcoming brokenness and the search for wholeness
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush Report #3
Report #3 takes a look at ‘repentance from dead works’ and gives the phrase a much needed makeover, or overhaul
Hebrews - Back to the Burning Bush
A journalist reports on a scene, in this series, I’ll be reporting on various verses in the New Testament book of Hebrews
Two Cats, Deux Chats
In France an elegant cat sitting in a cafe planter. In England, a graceful grey feline rests in a pram…are they in some form of telepathic cat-conversation that fails to recognise international borders?
Annoyed by a fence
Yes, I know, poetry should celebrate beauty, nature, God, love, wonder…but today, I’m annoyed by a fence.
Camino 3 days on the trail Day 5: Friday 18th July 2025
Camino: Monistrol D’Allier to Saugues
Camino 3 days on the trail Day 2: Thursday 17th July 2025
Day 2 on the Camino: Montbonnet to Monistrol D’Allier
Camino 3 days on the trail Day 1: Wednesday 16th July 2025
The first day on the Camino. Le Puy to Montbonnet.
Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Red Hand Files…out walking or jogging No1.The Robcast with Bonnie Tyler and her book ‘The Spark of My Womb’
First in a series of reviews of podcasts and the likes whilst out jogging or walking
The Problem with Awe
July’s Offering to the Association of Christian Writers’ blog ‘More Than Writers’ - the Problem of Awe…slight nod to CS Lewis’s ‘The Problem of Pain’
The Final Eleven O’Clock: Coffee Beans & A Phonecall Monday 30th June, 2025
The Final Eleven O’Clock - enjoy!
The Eleven O’Clock: Full English and Flat Whites? Sunday 29th June, 2025
Morning after the night before…coffee, breakfast, chat
The Eleven O’Clock: Hoovering and a Murder of Crows Saturday 28th June, 2025
Hoovering, Crows, and Jackdaws