Jon Jolly

So we’re back from Egypt and the photos are up on Flickr. We had a great time away and really enjoyed spending time with our friends Dominic, Claire, Rebecca, Joshua, Brian and Liz by the seaside.

Apologies if you’ve tried to comment on the blog in the past few days, access was suspended due to the huge amount of comment spam coming through. Although none of it got live on the site, I returned to a spam folder of around 17,000 comments! Things are back to normal now though.

Oh yes, and I bought a Canon EOS 400D Camera! I’ve wanted an SLR for a looong time and with the income from Dj-ing recently, felt it was finally viable. Although Tim Abbott preferred the Nikon D40x, there was a good deal on the Canon in Duty Free with an 8GB Compact Flash Card thrown in. I’m really happy with the outstanding picture quality.

Anyway, now we’re home there may actually be some interesting posts coming up soon…

If you could change one thing…

Originally uploaded by bobweasel.

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 plants within our world. It’s a fascinating and brilliant place that everyone should visit (although I found it a little too humanistic with its emphasis on the potential and greatness of people).

Eden currently has an interactive exhibition called ‘towards the edge’ which included lots of great creative ideas (click here for the full Flickr set).

Part of the display included thousands of tags with various questions printed on them. People were invited to write their own answers and hang them up with others on a clothes line. As I stood looking at the display, this particular tag caught my eye. Among thousands of others, it really captured my own thoughts and reminded me that God is doing His work in the unlikeliest of places.

If you could change one thing in the world what would it be?

Today is our 7th Wedding Anniversary! I can’t believe it’s been that long, where did the time go? Kirsty and I were talking earlier and it’s even been 2 years since we celebrated by going to see U2 live in Dublin.

We’re not doing much to celebrate today, just going out for a meal tonight. Here’s to another 7 years…

I found this blog referenced on Think Christian and amused myself for a while enjoying the some of the awful signs found outside (mainly American) churches. Sadly though I found a link to this sign on flickr which outlines some of the narrow-mindedness of some Christian churches.
From the photographer:

Jesus made it his mission to serve and help the poor, yet this church takes a stance to attack the poor and blame them for their own plight…..If laziness is poverty’s cousins, then social injustice and opression are poverty’s parents……..

We’ve had a great weekend catching up with friends and chilling out. Part of our fun was heading over to Brighton to track down some of the creatively hidden exhibition 41 Places. From the site:

41 Places is a city-wide artwork of 41 true stories, installed in the place where they happened – stories of people who live, work and play in Brighton.

After wandering around for a couple of hours, we only managed to find around 13 (even using the map)!

Some people have made it a mission to find and photograph all 41. Check out the Flickr group to see the others we didn’t find!

Rosie has challenged people to sum up their identity in just four photos from their library. I found this pretty tricky and i guess my choices would change over time. I’m not going to explain each one, so take them as you like:

So, what photos would you use? Pete, Dave, Dan, Ruth, Kirsty, Mark, Sam, Ben, Rich, Claire, Ian, Ali.

(Sorry about the photo resizing issues earlier!)

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!

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!

I love this picture!

Two times in my life I have been told that I look a bit like Jamie Oliver… both were this week by people totally unconnected to each other!

Jamie Oliver:

Jon Jolly:

It’s got to be something to do with the fact that my hair’s grown out a bit because I actually look nothing like the bloke! Still, it’s a reasonable compliment.