I moved to Bristol two years ago - right to the place where for all my uni-days I travelled on a fairly regular basis to go caving. But I didn't have a car, and then I didn't have enough money, and then it started to be so many years that I thought it'd be embarrassing to go back, and then it started being even longer ( Read more... )

This morning I learnt a new phrase: 'mirror moments' - times when you can truly see yourself, and what you've become and what your life is like. The prodigal son had one as he fed the pigs, and it caused him to go home to the father who loved him ( Read more... )

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At newday, I heard Sib Sibandwe preach an unusual message. Unusual because every other time I have heard him preach, he has been energetic, charismatic, entertaining.. and this time he stood stock still, and delivered it in a monotone. And I think he did this deliberately - because what he was saying was so powerful, so unusual, he didn't want to ( Read more... )

At the end of a week like Newday, it's hard to know what to say about. Do I tell you each preach, each worship session, how God moved, what he said? Or focus on the camping - the toilets and showers which had to be shut every day as we overloaded the new water pipes, the cooking, running the gauntlet with an inflatable sofa, - all the joys of ( Read more... )

Just been aimlessly trawling around the web, and found some blogs of people who I either know, or feel I should - like http://www.adrian.warnock.info/, http://www.wordandspirit.co.uk/blog/, Read more... )

Here it is at last! A picture of my kitten.

This is Monty, from a few months ago. He's now 5 months old, is much more 'cat like' in proportion, has lost his kitten fur, and bought in his first dead bird the other day (I'm so proud!)

hmm, can't make it appear here, so follow this linkThe guinea pig is Flower, who Nomi bought for me after Elvis ( Read more... )

My family take Monopoly very seriously. We all have different styles of playing. My mum, like in real life, is kind and generous, plays safely, lends us money so we don't get upset, and doesn't like conflict. Dad taught us to 'speculate to accumulate' - he spends every pound he gets as soon as he gets it, building up properties and hotels faster ( Read more... )

Bit of a weird spiritual entry, just to warn you...

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(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

× I miss somebody right now.
✓ I don't watch much TV these days.  (Dr Who just ended....)
✓ I own lots of books.  (once again..)

✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.
× I love to play video games.
× I've tried marijuana.

× I've watched porn movies.
✓ I have been the ( Read more... )