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In case you didn't know, I'm a church youth worker so I spend a lot of time with young people - so here's a conversation I had recently, but first some back ground ( Read more... )

I'm so proud - for years I have been quite jealous of Scarletdemon and her talented and amusing son Little Gay Brandon. I have a son and I have often wondered whether he would ever do anything that would enable me to coast to LJ stardom on the back of it. And finally my patience has paid off ( Read more... )

I've have owned rats for 5 years. We got them as pets for children because they were small and didn't live long, and discovered that even though they only live for a short time they pack a lot of life and love into that. Our first rat was Chewie and she taught us everything we needed know about rats. Since then we've had a fluctuating population ( Read more... )

I’m too infrequent a journaller for anyone to be wondering where I’ve been but I’ll tell you anyway because it’s really exciting (to me anyway ( Read more... )

This is an article from our local paper - I walk to school with my daughter through this park ( Read more... )

Following entries on some peoples' journals about this game I have just taken delivery of a set. To those of you who don't know it's an American game, consisting of two sets of cards, red apples and green apples. The judge picks a green apples card, which has an adjective on it. Each player has a hand of 7 red apple cards from which they choose ( Read more... )

If there is one thing that makes me madder that than mad it’s hypocrisy. I cannot stand it when someone goes on about something being wrong, when all the time their hands are just as dirty. I have listened to British media reports this week about the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man by Metropolitan ppolice office, and have become so incensed ( Read more... )

This time last week I was going to write up my thoughts about the Make Poverty history March in Edinburgh, but then I was tired because we didn’t back till late on Saturday night and had to work Sunday so Monday I was pretty knackered. Then I was working then it was Wednesday and London got the 2012 Olympics so that was good. And then Thursday… ( Read more... )

I’m going to change the world on Saturday. Well OK, not just me, hopefully me and 100,000 others. Yep, I’m off to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in Edinburgh. A group of us are travelling up on Friday afternoon, taking the kids out of school (our own, obviously not just random kids), camping at a site just outside Edinburgh Friday night and then travelling ( Read more... )