Archive - April, 2007

All Night Bowling

Last night (well, this morning really) we took a small group of 12 young people to take part in the All Night Bowling event organised by the Chichester Diocese of the Church of England. Starting at midnight, around 150 young people literally threw the night away getting in as many games as possible before 6am! [...]

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West Pier Jesus

Jesus crown of thorns 3 Originally uploaded by markbarkaway. Mark Barkaway posted this photo of a creative bit of graffiti on Brighton’s derelict West Pier. Brilliant!

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One Week In

I have now completed my first week in my new job and it’s been fun! On Monday there was no desk or chair so we spent some time moving furniture around and I’ve been allocated a ‘hotdesk’ for when I’m hanging around (lucky I’ve retained a desk at Wickbourne too). I’ve also now ordered my [...]

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Team Building

Team building Originally uploaded by bobweasel. I’m currently away at a youth retreat, my first duty as youth and schools worker for arun community church. It’s the hottest day of the year and we’re in glorious countryside doing team building activities! What a great way to start a new job!

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Mobile Blogging

I’ve added a couple of wordpress plugins to this site today that relate to blogging and browsing on the move. WP-Cron works with a pop3 email account (and the built-in wordpress functions) to post any emails it recieves straight to the site. This means I can write a post on my phone and email it [...]

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Weather Girl

Watching the end of the news on TV tonight, I was struck by how much the ITV weather girl’s hair looks like it was cut straight out of an anime cartoon! While searching the web trying to find an appropriate photo to prove my point, I discovered that someone has already noticed the similarity and [...]

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The Orang-Utan Song

First, an explanation: I wrote this silly song on a youth retreat around 6 years ago because I was bet that I couldn’t write a song about an Orang Utan in 10 minutes. It became one of those collective moments that the youth group remembered and has never quite been forgotten. Needless to say, I [...]

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Spring Harvest

Happy Easter everyone! Last week we were down in Minehead running Distinctive, the 11-14′s venue for Spring Harvest (Week 1). This is the sixth year I’ve been involved in the 11-14′s programme and yet again I absolutely loved being part of such an amazing and talented team! Sim has already posted on what we were [...]

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