I’ve spent a fairly large sum of money over the past couple of days, without really intending to! I bought a new phone – a Samsung S5600. I wanted something which could do basic internet (i.e., view and update Google Calendar), something which could take photos, and something which could do basic emails. The S5600…

My first article in the Crossring “Mark Marathon” has been published. It is entitled “Is Jesus Calling You Today?” and may be read here. The passage is Mark 1:14-20, although I spend most of the time dealing with the first couple of verses!

This weekend we made the journey down to Somerset to see Matthew and Ellie. We started out at about 9:30 on Saturday morning, and got there without too many problems at about 2:00PM. The roads were surprisingly clear, except for the A303 by Stonehenge! On Sunday morning we went to church with them in Shepton…

Well, just when you wait for ages for a rant to come along, two come along at once! Although actually, with me you never have to wait that long for a rant to come along. The first was was inspired by a business card I found left on our doormat this afternoon. It was from…

Well, after the busyness of the past couple of weekends we had a quiet one this week! On Saturday we did a bit of shopping in the morning, and … well, didn’t do much for the rest of the day! In he afernoon Jo came round with her baby (Evie) so it was nice to…

… Crossring‘s coming back! A few years ago I was involved with a site called Crossring, started up by a friend of mine called Simon. It was undoubtedly one of the best Christian websites around for young-ish people (I think it started off being aimed towards students, but we reached a lot of different people).…

Well, I didn’t just have one day for a birthday this time round – I had a weekend! Well, sort of. On Saturday afternoon, a whole bunch of people came round for a BBQ. This included, but was not limited to (just in case I forget anybody, which I hope I don’t!), Anne-Marie, Sarah, Kev…

… weddings! That’s right. On Saturday we headed over to Peterhouse College, Cambridge for the wedding of Mark and Phillippa (Mark is a former member of Fordham and our home group). The wedding was in the chapel at the college, and was led by Andy Saville. It was a lovely service – the details had…

As nothing much happened this weekend, I thought now would be a good time to talk about Lilypond. Lilypond, as in, the computer program for typesetting / engraving sheet music. The reason I’ve been using it is because Chris, the co-leader of the Sunday@6 band, has written a few songs. Unfortunately he doesn’t read music,…

Yesterday evening I was listening to music on Spotify. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, basically it’s a program which lets you listen to any one of its huge archive of songs – for free. The thing is, you don’t download any of the songs to your computer: it’s…