Well i'm at H3 festival in Milton Keynes. Already a good atmosphere and the bands haven't started yet! Will be doing a full review for the new Soul Exeter v2 site when I get back! Another review to stick on the site will be that of the book 'the Yes man' by Danny Wallace. I read it on the train on the way here and it was great! Anyhow I shall continue being 'pressy' and speak to a few more people and get some more quality journalism going!

Subbeuteo, Taxi, Polythene, Swim, Food, Semiotics and Soul Exeter v2 - that's a reduced round up of the day!

I have been getting a lot done the past few days - which has been good! I've pretty much caught up with my OU studies (which is now textual analysis - semiotics & genre), I've got a planning team together for a world cup service and the web-editing for Soul Exeter v2 is coming on incredibly - it's going to be one monster of a site!

Last night we had a movie night with far too much food - we learn't that gluttony was not a good thing! The movie wasn't that great - Taxi - a french film about a guy who drives a taxi that is also a race car! Luckily it was dubbed, but next time I think I'll allow Dave to choose Agent Cody Banks!

I also managed to get hold of some backcatologue albums I've wanted for a while. I bought Feeder's Swim and Polythene - which completes the Album backcatolgue in that respect. I've also wanted hard copies of Squad Five O and Bob Smiley for a while which I managed to pick up in the Wesley Owen sale along with the Flicker Rocks Harder DVD! Birthday money well and truely gone!

Anyhoo, I'm going to do some editing, then a bit of study before the planning meeting and a few games of Subbeuteo! Hurrah! God Bless...

We had a goodbye meal for Mandee yesterday, and Ania and Remik will be gone soon as well!

It's a time of change at the moment, with everyone deserting Dawlish and me being left (and currently without anyone else joining me - though hopefully that'll sort itself out in the next few weeks). Clubs are finishing up, Summer activities are being planned and I am sorting out foundation stuff for next year! We had a chinese meal last night (before the game of course!) and it was good to get a chance to say goodbye with just the team (spesh as I'm away for the general leaving party cos of H3!).

My leg is slowly getting better, the brusing has nearly gone, it's just long persiods of standing or sitting without having my leg raised that now hurt, so that's good. Physio on the other leg begins next Monday (hurrah!) which is good - I'd quite like to be able to play footie and hockey again!

Other than that I have been doing a tad of web editing and focusing on my OU work (which is really quite interesting at the moment!). Web editing wise I am doing some ground work ready for my 'Grand week of editing' 30th July - 8th August where I have the week to spend solely on the Soul Exeter site and getting it sorted. My aim is to have the template in place by then so I can just add the content. It's going to be quite a monster of a site with searchable bible, topic bible, bible guide, music reviews, news, interviews, celebration, open source youth work (games, videos, powerpoints, session guides), forum with myspace style community section, and 2 monthly podcasts going online! Hence needing a week to sort it all out!

Anyhoo, I'm going to get back to my study! God Bless...

Awesome Just10 Youth Event last night at Crealy - was an incredible privalage to be a part of it :)

Well last night was a fantastic event! As part of the Just 10 Devon mission which is finishing at the end of the month, some youth leaders got together and ran a large youth evangelism event with speakers Mark Greenwood and Mark Ritche, and loads of other stuff going on! I had the honour of being the MC for the event which was great fun (the guys and girls were very loud and well up for it!) and the whole event was a tremendous success - there must have been around a hundred kids who came forward to accept Christ! Awesome!

On another awesome front the Argentina game was incredible! 6-0! Good watching - unlike the England game which was stressful and quite uncomfortable. Let's hope we get it together over the next few weeks! Anyhoo, I'm going to update the links and about me section of the site - after all I am now 22!

God Bless...

Sat with my leg up in the office prinitng out another essay - I am a machine!

Well my leg still hasn't recovered from that fateful football match, mainly because I didn't follow the doctors orders until it got really painful, but I do now seem to be on the mend :)

Time off has been useful though! It has given me a chance to catch up with the OU work, as well as doing the kind of in depth planning that can only be done when you have a week to think about it! Hurrah!

Part from that I have watched a lot of football - which is always nice, and been thinking about Politics which I have selected as my next OU module (hurrah!). Anyhow, I'm going to go and 'read' some media texts! God Bless...

Don't play football with younger, fitter people - they will always make you look silly!

Well the prayer room has begun above me, and I'm going off in a second to join it - which I'm actually quite looking forward to. Hopefully Nadine is coming over to stay for a next few days and we're leading a service together on the Sunday evening at St. Gregs (so I have now created volume three of devotionals for doughnuts - it'll be on the downloads page in the next week or so!).

I have also just finished designing the http://www.xtolacoustics.co.uk/ web page, which I have to admit I'm quite proud of, it's a nice fresh design and the code is very solid - it's looks perfect in Explorer and the gecko based browsers!

Anyhoo, I'm off to pray and then I have to go to the doctor as I hurt my knee playing football with some of the lads from the youth group yesterday - it hurts!!! God Bless...