31.12.05
staunt
i think i've created a new word... i like it... (maybe it's just mis-spelling staunch, but i like it better... it means similar tho')
madness
is it just me, or are jigsaws the funnest things in the world?!?! no, seriously, i was entertained this afternoon for waaaay longer than just watching tv or something, and it gives you time to think as you do it!
i found myself describing the shape of pieces in my head in perculiar ways though by the end, i.e. 'satanic', 'regal', 'staunt', 'stocky', 'waving', 'questioning', and so on... am i mad?
i found myself describing the shape of pieces in my head in perculiar ways though by the end, i.e. 'satanic', 'regal', 'staunt', 'stocky', 'waving', 'questioning', and so on... am i mad?
lohannanator...
well, i break the silence that you were so enjoying, with 'news' that in fact, it was lindsay lohan who played the twins in the 1998 remake of the parent trap. i bet your life wasn't complete until now.
actually, if i'm honest i haven't written anything here in a while, not so much due to not having anything to say (as you can tell, that doesn't phase me), but just the realisation that perhaps the only reason i've begun 'blogging' is due to not being bothered to talk to real people and tell them real things and be prepared for real replies to what i say... but there you go.we shall see...
actually, if i'm honest i haven't written anything here in a while, not so much due to not having anything to say (as you can tell, that doesn't phase me), but just the realisation that perhaps the only reason i've begun 'blogging' is due to not being bothered to talk to real people and tell them real things and be prepared for real replies to what i say... but there you go.we shall see...
28.12.05
Jerry Maguire
six things i learned last night:
- jerry maguire is one of those films that, despite having seen it before, i'll always forget i've seen it and watch it again
- secondly, despite realising in the first minute that i've seen it, i end up watching it all
- thirdly; it's sad. as sad as the fact that 'sliding doors' is probably the one film i've watched the most times
- fourthly; don't start a film at 2330, you'll just end up sleepy the next day. or you'll get up at 1400
- fifthly; so that's the film where "you complete me" and "you had me at hello" come from. good lines
- finally; renee zellweger is actually very, very attractive.
happy eater
...does anyone remember 'happy eater's..? those were the days... stupid little chef.
...a curious similarity there
fear
our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
it is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
actually, who are you not to be?
you are a child of God.
your playing small does not serve the world.
there is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
we were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
it is not just in some; it is in everyone.
and, as we let our own light shine, we conciously give
other people permission to do the same.
as we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
it is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
actually, who are you not to be?
you are a child of God.
your playing small does not serve the world.
there is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
we were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
it is not just in some; it is in everyone.
and, as we let our own light shine, we conciously give
other people permission to do the same.
as we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
m. williamson/n. mandella
27.12.05
travels
well, back from travels now. done both liverpool and birmingham (well, near enough) in 2 days, and all that sitting down in the car has made me tired. i also blame all the food.
anyway, exciting things - got perhaps the best book in the world (a close competition with another book i was given...) from an aunty/uncle/family; Schott's Almanac 2006. here's a taster for you...
The National UK Rail Network is 16,652km long, almost half of what it was in 1928 when the network was at its peak of 32,565km. At present, 5,167km of the network is electrified, and 15,042km of track is currently open to passenger traffic.
So you see, couple (no pun intended) that with other such sections as Classic FM Hall of Fame 2005, UK Postal Rates at 1.9.2005, and The Global Gender Gap, and you have a mighty fine book, full of all the things i could ever need to know. happy days.
anyway, exciting things - got perhaps the best book in the world (a close competition with another book i was given...) from an aunty/uncle/family; Schott's Almanac 2006. here's a taster for you...
The National UK Rail Network is 16,652km long, almost half of what it was in 1928 when the network was at its peak of 32,565km. At present, 5,167km of the network is electrified, and 15,042km of track is currently open to passenger traffic.
So you see, couple (no pun intended) that with other such sections as Classic FM Hall of Fame 2005, UK Postal Rates at 1.9.2005, and The Global Gender Gap, and you have a mighty fine book, full of all the things i could ever need to know. happy days.
26.12.05
shower
well, off to rainhill in just a few minutes, but before i go - here's one of the 'musings' i had in the shower...
was contemplating free will, and although i believe it exists, i just think the term's a difficult one for explaining it. i think the term 'free will' implies that we are free to will anything into being or into happening. it sounds a bit much (to me) like the popular sayings "do your best", "you can change the world if you just try hard" etc.
i believe, rather, that we have free choice, and i think this way of expressing the concept of being able to choose what actions you take, what thoughts you think etc:
was contemplating free will, and although i believe it exists, i just think the term's a difficult one for explaining it. i think the term 'free will' implies that we are free to will anything into being or into happening. it sounds a bit much (to me) like the popular sayings "do your best", "you can change the world if you just try hard" etc.
i believe, rather, that we have free choice, and i think this way of expressing the concept of being able to choose what actions you take, what thoughts you think etc:
- allows room for God (not that he needs us to allow room for him, except in our minds)
- puts us back down to the level we were created at, under God (it was him that 'willed' the world into being, not us, but he made us with free choice to live the life he created us to live, or our own lives, which are crap.
25.12.05
peak of geek
you know you've reached the "peak of geek" when you realise you've just searched "cool dynamic html" in google. i think i need sleep. merry christmas everybody; part 1 of God's rescue mission.
and yes, i did find something 'cool'...
and yes, i did find something 'cool'...
tourist
finally finished my chocolate, and currently having a break from the hedgehog game while mum's doing some veggies, j and dad are out having a crack at driving somewhere, and r is somewhere else entirely...
decided my (extended) family don't particularly like having me around, given that today i recieved a book called
"1000 places to see before your mortality catches up with you and you're dead dead dead. definitely deceased. beeding demised. passed on, no more, expired, bereft of life, pushing up the daisies!" (or something like that) along with "a picture of britain", "book of britain's countryside" and a nice big tin of shortbread with a picture of kilchurn castle on. that's gotta be more than 1000 photos! just so long as i avoid visiting abyssinia and ajan, i should be okay...
large
santa came in the end! thought i was a large though, and now have two biiig jumpers. oh well.
also got this stupid annoying dog glove puppet thing that 'barks' three (yes, three!) tunes if you close (yes, he barks with his mouth closed) his mouth in the right rhythm. tiring, i can tell you.
...more to come; now off to play a stacking hedgehogs game and await christmas lunch (5pm, apparetly!)
also got this stupid annoying dog glove puppet thing that 'barks' three (yes, three!) tunes if you close (yes, he barks with his mouth closed) his mouth in the right rhythm. tiring, i can tell you.
...more to come; now off to play a stacking hedgehogs game and await christmas lunch (5pm, apparetly!)
24.12.05
santa
well, eleven thirty-ish, and santa's not yet arrived. think i might give up waiting and go to sleep. ah well, maybe i'll catch him next year. before i go, one quick gripe at the world; female santa suits! are they not just there to screw up little kids?
which is worse; "i saw daddy kissing old man santa clause" or "i saw daddy kissing mrs. c, maybe i won't get any presents".
either way; tears, i can assure you.
which is worse; "i saw daddy kissing old man santa clause" or "i saw daddy kissing mrs. c, maybe i won't get any presents".
either way; tears, i can assure you.
wow...
just reading my new christmas book (yes, finally, a substitute for minesweeper - reading!) - and was astounded by the amazing idea in it, let me quote:
Because cats always land on their feet and toast always lands butter side down, you can construct a perpetual [perpetual] motion machine by simply strapping a slice of buttered toast to a cat's back. When the cat is dropped it will remain suspended and revolve indefinitely due to the opposing forces.
here's what i think this would look like:
Because cats always land on their feet and toast always lands butter side down, you can construct a perpetual [perpetual] motion machine by simply strapping a slice of buttered toast to a cat's back. When the cat is dropped it will remain suspended and revolve indefinitely due to the opposing forces.
here's what i think this would look like:
london
okay, guess who almost drove to london today then... i'll give you a clue, it wasn't you! actually, that's a alight exaggeration, although due to some fancy direction-not-following from yours truly, i ended up on the a12 going the wrong way, and it took 3 attempts of exiting then re-emerging onto it to finally find somewhere i could turn round. fun, apart from the whole running out of time thang...
anyway, that's that story. congrats those people i managed to get christmas cards to, and happy christmas nonetheless to those i didn't.
i'm very excited. coal levels are high and satsuma levels low, signifying the likelihood of a rather groovy christmas baby...
anyway, that's that story. congrats those people i managed to get christmas cards to, and happy christmas nonetheless to those i didn't.
i'm very excited. coal levels are high and satsuma levels low, signifying the likelihood of a rather groovy christmas baby...
ponderings on gay marriage...
well, my first thought is i think this is wrong. marriage is a bible-founded idea, and has always referred to a God-blessed (whether or not the individuals are christians) union of a man and a woman. i don't see how changing this could do anything but completely mock the bible, and all those who stand for it as the truth
that says nothing about civil partnerships though; still not made up my mind on that one.
a 'pastoral' thought: there's probably a hundred better things that us 'evangelical christians' could be doing with ourselves than getting all shook up on this one!
stay tuned for gay bishops...
that says nothing about civil partnerships though; still not made up my mind on that one.
a 'pastoral' thought: there's probably a hundred better things that us 'evangelical christians' could be doing with ourselves than getting all shook up on this one!
stay tuned for gay bishops...
23.12.05
yeat another blog
found a poem i like, thanks to none other than william butler yeats. leg
Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
so yeah. came across that when trying to work out where the words "he longs for the cloths of heaven" had appeared from on my phone. still clueless.
Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
so yeah. came across that when trying to work out where the words "he longs for the cloths of heaven" had appeared from on my phone. still clueless.
fiesta and faster
thick doors, has the fiesta, and it's a 1.2, meaning i can go that little bit faster, and be that little bit more likely to be in a side-on collision (although obviously not if i go fast enough), and have a greater chance of survival (however slim) than if i were in a ka. jackanackanory.
giants
decided i like one of my poems today. i think i blame it on seeing king kong twice (that's seven hourse of my life!). here it is...
the giant and her
Cloaked in the hides of seven bears
Mauled by his bare hands,
His high, hunched shoulders hunker forth,
Her tender hand in his mighty paw.
His unkempt mane defines the
Hooded silhouette, that masks her form.
His oak-tree legs lumber on
As her lacy limbs take two then leap.
How strange it is that as they maunder
Each should hold the other.
How odd that he should see her fragile beauty
And her, his broken heart.
the giant and her
Cloaked in the hides of seven bears
Mauled by his bare hands,
His high, hunched shoulders hunker forth,
Her tender hand in his mighty paw.
His unkempt mane defines the
Hooded silhouette, that masks her form.
His oak-tree legs lumber on
As her lacy limbs take two then leap.
How strange it is that as they maunder
Each should hold the other.
How odd that he should see her fragile beauty
And her, his broken heart.
tidiness
tidied my room today; came across this, scribbled on a piece of paper:
if i have an inkling of doubt in my mind as to whether i can [with His help] stop this persistant sinning or not, then asking for God's help still implies that satan's hold on me must be greater than His. i have a choice to say "help me" and "i promise not to", or "i'll go it alone" and "i'll try not to".
similarly, unless i am willing to let God blame Jesus for all my failings, unless i do that, i'll never be forgiven. and if i am forgiven, i am no longer a "repetative sinner", and if i still see myself as such, then i have not truly turned, or truly believed that God has the power to transform my life.
this may be theologically iffy (tell me!), and I definitely would word it better now, but there you go.
blog 2.
if i have an inkling of doubt in my mind as to whether i can [with His help] stop this persistant sinning or not, then asking for God's help still implies that satan's hold on me must be greater than His. i have a choice to say "help me" and "i promise not to", or "i'll go it alone" and "i'll try not to".
similarly, unless i am willing to let God blame Jesus for all my failings, unless i do that, i'll never be forgiven. and if i am forgiven, i am no longer a "repetative sinner", and if i still see myself as such, then i have not truly turned, or truly believed that God has the power to transform my life.
this may be theologically iffy (tell me!), and I definitely would word it better now, but there you go.
blog 2.
first post
yes, the first post on my blog. wow. well, I have nothing to write except "new car today!" and "I wonder if this is going to put my mind to better use than playing minesweeper..?" hope so.
14.6.05
14 June 2007
Typed directly from a quickly scribbled-down newsletter. To download, click the title.
So sorry I haven’t been in touch in such a long while, but don’t worry – I’m not dead! Dead tired, maybe – but this week has been a lot more relaxing – especially as I had monday and tuesday off…
The 2 weeks previous had been very busy though (so much so that I can hardly remember what went before!) – the first being the whole build up to eight (Friday night café), the Platform (youth event) and I was preaching a sermon/leading a service (at a church I’d been to once before – and I’ve never done that before!) on the Sunday morning. Oh yeah, and that included training on the wednesday and the bank holiday monday!
Then the week after was 2 days at African Adventure with year 7 (usually year 6 or below) and (unexpectedly) 8 pupils who “hade n’t settled into High School well” – so was very challenging, but the most ‘rewarding’(?) Then wednesday training and Friday-Sunday back at the African Village co-leading/running a boys’ weekend! Conversely, they were incredibly well-behaved, but still wore us out!
…so perhaps I earned my 2 days off.
As far as next year, I’ve got a place at uni Durham uni to read maths, which should be great! Provided I remember what I know, that is!
The summer starts as work (+ living) here ends, with a week at the Slack Top Centre (Yorkshire) helping my parents + others run a week’s re-entry holiday for returning missionary kids. Then there’s a week as a worker at a young people’s Christian camp at Sizewell Hall, followed immediately by a week there as a “camper”.
That’ll be about the middle of August, + I’ll then be looking to work (applying soon!) at tesco. Mum drives past one on her way to work most days, but it’s not much more than an hour or half an hour’s cycle. Ideally I’ll be driving one of their ‘dotcom’ vans – but if that doesn’t work out it’ll probably be stackingchairs ^shelves or similar. I’d probably work part time so I do get some holiday and/or time to brush up on the maths!
Other summer plans include possibly ^a day visiting Mum, Dad + Ros while they’re in Norfolk on holiday and possibly even driving my Nanna to the North-Easy coast for her to get a bit of a holiday.
We’ll see.
So sorry I haven’t been in touch in such a long while, but don’t worry – I’m not dead! Dead tired, maybe – but this week has been a lot more relaxing – especially as I had monday and tuesday off…
The 2 weeks previous had been very busy though (so much so that I can hardly remember what went before!) – the first being the whole build up to eight (Friday night café), the Platform (youth event) and I was preaching a sermon/leading a service (at a church I’d been to once before – and I’ve never done that before!) on the Sunday morning. Oh yeah, and that included training on the wednesday and the bank holiday monday!
Then the week after was 2 days at African Adventure with year 7 (usually year 6 or below) and (unexpectedly) 8 pupils who “had
…so perhaps I earned my 2 days off.
As far as next year, I’ve got a place at uni Durham uni to read maths, which should be great! Provided I remember what I know, that is!
The summer starts as work (+ living) here ends, with a week at the Slack Top Centre (Yorkshire) helping my parents + others run a week’s re-entry holiday for returning missionary kids. Then there’s a week as a worker at a young people’s Christian camp at Sizewell Hall, followed immediately by a week there as a “camper”.
That’ll be about the middle of August, + I’ll then be looking to work (applying soon!) at tesco. Mum drives past one on her way to work most days, but it’s not much more than an hour or half an hour’s cycle. Ideally I’ll be driving one of their ‘dotcom’ vans – but if that doesn’t work out it’ll probably be stacking
Other summer plans include possibly ^a day visiting Mum, Dad + Ros while they’re in Norfolk on holiday and possibly even driving my Nanna to the North-Easy coast for her to get a bit of a holiday.
We’ll see.
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