My brain is turning to slush! Oh my I think that some serious eating needs to be done - fish finger sandwhiches maybe?

I am in the middle of essay writing which I'm enjoying and finding tiresome at the same time!! Will my life continue to exist as a series of paradoxes?! It all about how reasearch is carried out in relation to media audiences and the bias that lies behind that - it's quite interesting it's just a tad hard going. I've got my very rough draft done, so I'm going to eat some brain food and chill out with a cartoon before Exeter this afternoon and Friday Night Takeaway tonight.

Generally this week has been fantastic, I've really enjoyed doing all the groups, seeing a lot out of being more organised with things and I have achieved quite a bit! My main aim at the moment is to get this essay finished to post - then I'll be able to get on with some web design projects!

Anyhow, I'd really better get on. Have a great day whatever you're doing! God Bless...

What a gig! The crowd wasn't huge but the reception was fantastic and the live performance wasn't bad at all if I don't say so myself!

Well we played our first gig as The Renascent on Saturday and it was great. The crowd wasn't huge (mainly due to some poor work by the promoter) but most of the crowd was there to support us as we played a set of our best material (German Stunner, Swept Away, Fashionably Late, Darling Angel, and Socks and Scarves) along with covers of Feeder's Just a Day and Seven Days in the Sun. It was quite a success and is leading to some more gigs and a a festival too! Hurrah!

Also in the last few days I have taken to writing to do lists which seem to be making me more efficient! I think that this shall have to continue! Anyhow, much still to do! God Bless...

Weddings, Food and Church seem to be the marks of the weekend, which really isn't a bad mixture :)

I've had a really great weekend, lots of fun and lots of pictures too (which I'm going to put into an album and stick on the site when I get back to dawlish!). Suzie & Dan's Wedding on Saturday was really lovely, the service was really joyous and the reception was fantastic - lots of dancing and laughing (I certainly did a lot of both). Even the speeches were good, Daniel did his speech as a song which was exceptional and Mark's Father of the Bride speech was very funny! For me though the highlight was the dancing - I don't get to dance madly very often and doing so with the Wade tribe was a great joy and ever so much fun!

Church yesterday was great, though we missed the classic Easter morning greeting (Christ has risen, He has risen indeed, Hallejuah!) we had puppetry, and worship so exciting I ripped my trousers and had to fix them with gaffa-tape! Then it was a lovely lunch with Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins! In the afternoon there was an Easter Egg Hunt where I brought in an admriable hoard - though the competition were all under waist height! The evening praise service was good, but without too much dancing - no one else seemed up for it!

Anyhoo, I'd better go, my Nan needs to use the phone, and I need a shower. God Bless...

My uncle told me my life was boring so today i shall try to make this post EXCITING!!!!!

I am in Hemel 'the land of crocodiles' Hempstead now, using the 'SLOWEST internet connection in history' whilst explosions go on around me! So far I have manged to miss all the intended targets but a few have come close. Yesterday I went along to a drama thing which was ok (oh, I'm sorry I need to be exiting - THE DAY BEFORE TODAY DRAMA UNFOLDED BEFORE MY EYES!!!!) and broke my knife on a wedge of butter so evil that it made children cry!

Enough of that already... anyhoo, going out with Grandparents and Aussies later then we have a big meal this evening with all of us - hurrah! Wedding tomorrow, my suit is at the dry cleaners and I've been practicing my loud singing! Tee Hee! Wrote a song yesterday about trained monkey assasins! And finally the house I am in is very hot and the aussies keep complaining it is cold - I'm sure I'm getting burnt! Have a great day whatever you're up to! God Bless...

Devotionals for Doughnuts - Devotionals for the Kerrang Generation!

Well everything seems to be about carrying on going, I am looking forward to getting away to Hemel for a few days of recouping and getting some good quality OU reading and note taking done!

Sunday evening's service the young people did (Journey to God) was fantastic - it was so encouraging to see them leading and really doing it very confidently for their first ever attempt. The talk I did also went ok and the launch of Devotionals for Doughnuts went well! Basically I talked about the need to spend time with God and gave them two booklets to help...

* Devotionals for Doughnuts Volume 1
* How to use Devotionals for Doughnuts
(both are Adobe Acrobat and are formatted to be printed out - i.e. the pages don't match up on screen!)

Yesterday had a cool day out with Cordi, Dan, Dave, Alex and Loren - we hit Exeter, ate much pizza, pick&mixed, Ice Age Twoed and walked round a bit! Twas great! Anyhoo, I'd better get goijng, I have now tidied my desk so I can't be moaned at for making the office a mess and I have also got the confirmation group meeting in the flat this morning. My oh my! Have a grand day, God Bless...

I'm getting a lot done today, the only problem is there is a lot more to do!

So far today I have written a book 'Devotionals for Doughnuts' along with an acompanying leaflet 'How to use Devotionals for Doughnuts', written a talk for Sunday evening, written out ten songs and put them on a powerpoint, and I still have to plan a japanese gameshow & buy food for this evening and then do it all! Hurrah! Sometimes the days are rather busy!

Anyhow, it's all just about going ok at the moment, I think I'll plan the gameshow over some lunch and then make a trip into town (which will have to be quickish because I have the 'We've finished school Party' from 4 till 7!

Tomorrow is going to be really cool! I've got and O.U. tutorial tomorrow morning (for which the reading I am slightly behind but aparently that wont matter) and then it's on to Soul Exeter (there might well be a diversion past Dominos Pizza!) to set up and then do it!

Then Sunday is Palm Sunday with our first 'Journey to God' youth service at 7.45pm, Monday is Exeter Trip Day, Tuesday heralds a morning of Films, then pitch and put plus Youth House Group and Wednesday International Risk for pretty much the whole day (it will be world conquest after all!).

So don't worry too much if I don't appear much over the next few days. I might be busy! God Bless...

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much good - Ecclesiastes 9:18

This morning I am still rather 'raahed up' about the whole church meeting thing yesterday, met a load of people I'd never saw before at any of the services and they voted for their friends some of whom I'd also never seen before who are now invovled in the control of this church! So I'm now filled with a righteous anger - rah!

Anyhoo, better get over that, nothing I can do about it! So I shall instead reflect on a great April Fools day prank - namely the people who believed the text saying that I was engaged to Nadine! You really should have scrolled down the message where at the bottom it said APRIL FOOL!!! Oh dear. I think I worried some of you!

Better get moving anyway, there is all sorts of stuff I need to be doing, wahoo! God Bless...