- 60% of its water for industry and agriculture comes from glaciers – add that to the list of things I did not know about Iran.
- My mum sent me the extraordinary story of Jeane and Paul Briggs, who have adopted 28 children over the last 30 years.
- For those with an interest in theology, the Jubilee Centre’s latest Cambridge Paper is called The Bible and Biodiversity. It’s by Dave Bookless, who was a big inspiration to me in starting this blog in the first place.
- WordPress have delivered their annual stats round-up on the blog. I won’t bore you with them, but I will share the fact that there were blog readers from 216 different countries last year.
To the one mystery reader in Greenland, and everyone else, happy new year for 2015!

I didn’t even know there were 216 countries in the world. Last time I counted I think it was 198! Well done, MWH!
Yes, I reckon that’s geographical locations rather than political territories. I don’t think we can count on the WordPress stats engine to work out the nuances of sovereignty.