Mohammed, Jesus and Darwin, each offers us a view of the world and its place in the cosmos.

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Even my most ardent admirer

....would have to admit that decorating rooms is not a forte of mine. i have painted more carpets than walls and the kitchen cupboards I put up for my good lady fell on her just a few months later.

As a bodger I can spot another bodger at a mile - usually I buy their houses.Today I have a professional decorator in and he makes everything look very easy and me feel a bit of a failure. It wouldn't be so bad if the lad didn't look like he was about 12.

Its all very strange...

that I'm up with the lark every morning, eager to turn the radio on and suck in all the misery that the world can generate.

... and just of late it has much on offer

What with earthquakes, African Dictators, droughts and floods, every morning I can find enough to get me worked up for a day or more. Bush or Brown has only to open his mouth, another celebrity get arrested for drugs, some guy in Austria lock up his daughter.......

Then I go on holiday and the world is denied my input

...and it didn't seem to notice.

One tries so hard to achieve a Christian outlook

.........but it's very hard when the Good Lord serves up so many hate figures.

I know His heart's in the right place, but he doesn't seem to protect us mature types from what my priest - a long time ago - called the 'occasions of sin'.

For my sins, which were many, he made me a diabetic some ten or so years back. I had it coming. I was working in Nigeria, in the Delta area, amidst tribal warfare, corruption, casual violence and daily deaths from starvation, sickness and traffic accidents.