The other day, I was in Tesco’s queing at one of those self-scanning checkouts. At the till to my right I noticed a young girl aged about 10 or 11 putting in loads of coppers to pay for a 6 pint of milk. Pretty soon all the coins in her hand had gone into the [...]
If you could change one thing…
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Kirsty and I spent the weekend in Cornwall, exploring the beaches and countryside and staying in a tiny tent. It was great! Part of our trip was spent at The Eden Project where we looked around the biomes, wandered the gardens and learned about the importance of [...]
Yesterday as I was walking to my car, I bumped into a group of teenagers that I hadn’t seen for a few months. After the initial greetings of “alriiig?” one of the group, Jason, told me he was learning to be an extreme skater. Now this surprised me quite a lot as Jason has always [...]
A few weeks back I got a comment on this post about the Christian Blog Awards encouraging me to enter. Now not knowing much about the awards, I went to the website and followed the instructions half expecting to discover a scam! Then yesterday, I got an email saying:
Congratulations!
Your blog has gone through to [...]
I had a really great time last week. The weather was terrible and rarely did the sun shine as the photo shows, but I got to hang out with around 30 fantastic young people without having any agenda to achieve or promote - just enjoying their company. It was a good chance for me to [...]
Soul survivor, day 2
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The weather here has been pretty bad with heavy wind and rain all night. Although everyone here’s in good spirits, Sam (pictured) is exhausted from evacuating his tent at 5am after it became a swimming pool! What with his brother Dan opening the emergency exit on the coach yesterday [...]
I’m sitting in the office today catching up with various bits of paperwork before heading off the Shepton Mallett on Monday. We’re taking around 25 young people along to Soul Survivor A and I’m quite excited about going because the last time I went was waaaay back in 1999.
Our group is joining together with St [...]
For those of you who don’t subscribe to Youthblog (all 2 of you), I loved Ian’s commentry on the Church Times article…
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