Well, it’s now official 2010 (and has been for a few days now), so I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my loyal blog readers a happy new year! (All my unloyal blog readers can take a running jump :p) It’s been a good new year for us. We came back home on…

The Christmas break has been pretty good so far! I am currently writing this from Phil’s parents’ house. We came down here after the carol service at Fordham on Christmas Eve. We had a pretty safe journey – it was well above freezing (well, above freezing anyway) so there was no ice to worry about.…

I’ve closed off my Facebook Photo Uploader project for the foreseeable future. The main reason is that I just don’t have the time to develop it to make it actually work! The problems started a few months ago, Facebook introduced an album ID format which used Strings rather than Longs (essentially they could contain non-numeric…

On Thursday night last week it snowed pretty heavily. This meant that I wasn’t able to get into work on Friday, but I was able to do some work from home. And we had another party on Friday night! Fortunately it didn’t involve driving so we were able to walk across town. We went round…

It’s that time of year again! On Friday night we had the 21 Christmas party. It went down pretty well, think all the kids had a good time. Then on Saturday we did a bit of Christmas shopping (nearly all done now… so close to the end!) In the evening we went round to James…

There seems to be a lot of fuss at the moment around the X-Factor. I don’t know if you’ve seen the Facebook group Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No. 1, it’s basically reacting against the whole X-Factor winner having a Christmas no. 1 every year. I do applaud the effort of the group –…

I’m getting very slack – it’s now Wednesday and I haven’t updated with a usual weekend style update. Well, if you’re lucky, I might toss in some news of what we’ve been up to mid-week :p Anyway. Friday night – 21 as usual. Saturday – I spent most of the day preparing for Sunday morning.…

Just in case you are interested, my sermon from this morning on Ephesians 6:18-20 (on prayer) is up and available on the Fordham website (note: direct link to MP3) I think it went pretty well, had a lot of positive comments about it afterwards, but obviously I still need a lot of practice! Had a…

This weekend was a pretty standard weekend – did a talk on the Good Samaritan at 21 on Friday, did some shopping on Saturday, church on Sunday etc. The main thing different was that we went to St Botolph’s to see Haydn’s Creation. It was great – the orchestra, choir and soloists all performed well!…

Now that I’ve been using Windows 7 for a couple of weeks, I thought it would be a good time to write up a couple of thoughts that I have. The thoughts are overwhelming positive so far. In fact, to be honest I don’t have a single bad word to say about Windows 7! (Shock!!…