Mr T and I have tickets to go and see U2 at Wembley in August!  The support band is Elbow.  We are excited already.  We’re the best part of £200 poorer after paying the £85 ticket price plus £8.50 (per blooming ticket!) booking fee.  But from what we’ve read, the tour sounds like it’s going to be spectacular!  (They did have £150 tickets, but £300 ( Read more... )

Last weekend we went on a family outing to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.  Ripley’s is the spiritual home of such wonders as the Bun That Looks Like Mother Theresa.


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Tim Vine was the subject of Metro’s 60 Second interviews today.  One of his questions was:

Has the “There’s probably no God” poster put you off being a Christian?


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I have been reading “Blue Like Jazz” by Donald Miller for ages and tonight, this was the paragraph I stumbled upon:

So one of the things I had to do after God provided a church for me was too let go of any bad attitude I had against the other churches I’d gone too.  In the end, I was just different … It wasn’t that they were bad, they just didn’t ( Read more... )

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Westboro Baptist Church have decided to export their unique (and extremely loathsome) version of Christianity to the UK.  The reasons for their visit can be found here - it wasn’t to soak up some culture and get rained on.  Several of them got refused visas as the UK government decided that some things are better off remaining in their country of ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know two entries in a day looks really needy ...

a) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog/lj

b) Tag eight people. Don't tag who tagged you.  (I’m not going to do this bit, but if you want to snaffle, then feel free!)

( and I also have some answers )

Continuing from yesterday’s entry about our planned night out.

Our evening started at the Real Ale Pub, followed by the Trendy Wine Bar and then finished up at Wagamamas.  We chatted all night about Stuff.  (And not all of it was about the Tubblet or work or church).  And then we went home.  And, in the words of Samuel Pepy’s, so to bed.

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Mr T sent me this yesterday and said he was considering using one of the designs to make his own Valentine’s card this year.  Probably the Hans Solo:


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