I am preaching at my church this Sunday. All, believers and non-believers, are welcome to attend. Since its my first full-length preach I am a little nervous and would welcome any support.

For the whole nerves thing, I wonder if its appropriate to picture my audience naked?

I have a term's worth of drama teaching coming up in September at Werneth High School in Romiley. Its a lovely place, the staff are great and the kids are relatively nice. Go me!

Reply to this and I shall write something I like about you.

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In other news, myself and Lindsay are now boarders for a very large golden-white labrador called Kaine. He is a trainee guide dog who lives with us evenings and weekends. I like him very much. Come and meet him if you are so inclined.

Today was Caroline's funeral. I'm sorry for not posting about this earlier, I only found out about it on Friday myself and I have not really had much interweb time. There was a small family service at 2pm at the hospital (where Caroline's mum is currently unable to leave) followed by a broader public one at 3pm at the crem in Rochdale ( Read more... )

Caroline had been depressed for a couple of months. She had been forced by circumstance to get rid of all her animals bar one small dog. She was temporarily living at her mother's in order to look after her (Mum having contracted MRSA in hospital ( Read more... )

Because this is more interesting than it should be, in no particular order:

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The preach went well on Sunday, even though it overran thanks to me and the compadres over-preparing. I am investigating ways to get my bit in downloadable electronic form so you can all smell my God-given wisdom ( Read more... )

Jesus went into the desert for forty days and forty nights before he started on the preaching circuit. People assume that was to wrestle with temptation, come to terms with his destiny, reacquaint himself with his divine heritage and pass the forty day test to become the inspiration for a world religion ( Read more... )