I was reading The Wine Guy express last night and...

 NO I WASN'T! NO ONE READS THE WINE GUY EXPRESS!

Nay, but seriously folks...

Sunday. That means a lot of people going to church and a lot of people staying home. Church shops will be opening up soon.

Some people will be after a holy picture and others will be looking for a bargain. Some of the better to do churches have opened a hair salon or a vaping shop - these have both proven very popular with the parishioners in these areas. In one of the Hutt shops they're promoting a book called How to survive Purgatory. It was written by a guy called Father Mike.

Father Mike from Taihape.

In his book Father Mike writes about applying for special fireproof Purgatory clothes next time you go to confession. He also talks about how to keep the 'suffering afterwards value' of a sin down. He writes about the pioneering work of Brother Benedict and how he managed to eventually get into Heaven after being a real sod on Earth.

Chapter 6 - 'A sod's path
to Heaven.'

Evidently the trick had to do with the 'science' of praying for forgiveness in advance but picking up that forgiveness much later. Using this system, Brother Benedict was able to drastically cut down his time in Purgatory. Father Mike calls it 'a touching story.'

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It's Sunday morning and I have a young chap coming for a violin lesson this morning. I'm going to explain the 'one scale on the violin' thing to him and, since he says he doesn't know how to get better, I'll give him a copy of Caprice 24. Anyone who slowly works on that will get better.

I'll sign off now.

Ciao tutti.