This is a quote of mine from an earlier post: The whole experience has made me realise, though — I never want to have someone come round the house again on a sales-oriented call Guess what we did on Tuesday night? That’s right, have a salesperson round! Let me explain a little bit. The people…

Quick weekend type summary. Apologies for not writing more on the blog recently, I have been busy – and suffering from a syndrome known as “lack of ideas” (my usual state of affairs, to be honest!) I do have an article due to be published on Crossring in the next month, so that’s, um, something…

Well, this week was a bit more busy, but in a really nice way. On Friday evening we had 21, and then afterwards Alex came round to stay for a couple of nights (he had a party near Ipswich to go to). Anyway, on Saturday morning we did a bit of shopping and general sorting…

Over the past few years we’ve been using an Ikea mattress. However, the past few months it’s been getting more and more saggy. We decided to buy a new mattress, and so in September (when we were on holiday) we popped into Benson’s in Colchester. We bought a new Relyon mattress – expensive, but hopefully…

A few weeks ago, Muse released their new album “The Resistance”. I have avoided commenting on it thus far because I wanted to give it a proper listen. I find the problem with albums is that my opinion can change over the course of time, so I want to try and give it as long…

This weekend was quite a nice one! On Friday night we helped out at 21, and I did the talk. This week, it was on the parable of the sower. The kids all seemed knackered, but I think they took at least some of it in! On Saturday we spent the day doing shopping and…

This weekend was relatively busy, things are picking up after the summer and we’re now virtually back to a full schedule. On Friday night we helped out at 21 as per usual. Then on Saturday morning we did some shopping, and then in the afternoon popped round to see Jo and David’s new flat. Then…

You may have already seen this, but this article is worth a read: 50 things that are being killed by the internet. It makes interesting and, at times, thought-provoking reading. One of the things I’ve thought about modern culture recently is that people (including myself) don’t seem to “live in the moment”. In other words,…

This weekend started off fairly normally: 21 has started again for the autumn term so we were helping out there on Friday night. On Saturday we did a bit of shopping – a Waitrose has opened up in Colchester, fairly near us, so we went there for the first time. It was incredibly busy, but…

Just thought I’d better post up a quick update on our holiday last week! We caught the train up to Edinburgh on Monday morning. The journey was straightforward, and we got into Edinburgh on time at about 1:30 PM. The flat itself was very comfortable – we were staying in a National Trust property called…