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On Sunday, there was a Doctor Who prom, celebrating the best of doctor who and interplanetary music. They played the Song for freedom linked to the doctor's theme. Song for freedom is the most beautiful thing i have heard this year. So i thought i would share a link to it so anyone who missed it can listen.
29 July, 2008
28 July, 2008
new car - Citroen Xsara RIP
As a result of the odyssey, we have now bought a new car, because the Xsara has passed that tipping point of no return. We spent most of the weekend choosing and ended up with a new family sized ford after much deliberating.
27 July, 2008
Our odyssey this week.
Hi to anyone reading. Sorry there has been no posting for the past few weeks. Has been entirely too busy.
To give you a sense of how busy we have been, let me tell you about our little odyssey this week. On Wednesday, I had my interview for probationary status as a minister for the church, which was in Taunton. So, we decided that we would go and see alex's parents and my mum too and then come back the day after.
So far so good, except we have a car which has been a bit dubious in the radiator department. We've been crusing up and down the a38 for the last few weeks/months at 60mph max, which is ok.
We managed to get as far as taunton ok, but i started to worry when going to my mum's that we were struggling to get to 50 on the motorway. So we pulled off and realised at street that there was virtually no water in the radiator. We prayed up the hills of the mendips and limped home for the night.
The next day, coming home, we tried to patch up the radiator with some radweld and more water. Cutting a long story short, it didn't work. it took an hour to get 25 miles down the road to yeovil, and then we were going at 40mph in 5th gear and the car was telling us we were massively overheating. We pulled in at cartgate picnic park.
As patrons of this park for a good 3 1/2 hours, we can thoroughly recommend its facilities. We called out the rescue people who said we were going home in a recovery van. And it took us 7 hours to get home from somerset!!! While we were at the picnic park we had to find some way of entertaining rocky, so we got out his play pen and put it in the middle of the park, as you can see below. He liked this, although he didn't want to sleep in the way we wanted him too.
To give you a sense of how busy we have been, let me tell you about our little odyssey this week. On Wednesday, I had my interview for probationary status as a minister for the church, which was in Taunton. So, we decided that we would go and see alex's parents and my mum too and then come back the day after.
So far so good, except we have a car which has been a bit dubious in the radiator department. We've been crusing up and down the a38 for the last few weeks/months at 60mph max, which is ok.
We managed to get as far as taunton ok, but i started to worry when going to my mum's that we were struggling to get to 50 on the motorway. So we pulled off and realised at street that there was virtually no water in the radiator. We prayed up the hills of the mendips and limped home for the night.
The next day, coming home, we tried to patch up the radiator with some radweld and more water. Cutting a long story short, it didn't work. it took an hour to get 25 miles down the road to yeovil, and then we were going at 40mph in 5th gear and the car was telling us we were massively overheating. We pulled in at cartgate picnic park.
As patrons of this park for a good 3 1/2 hours, we can thoroughly recommend its facilities. We called out the rescue people who said we were going home in a recovery van. And it took us 7 hours to get home from somerset!!! While we were at the picnic park we had to find some way of entertaining rocky, so we got out his play pen and put it in the middle of the park, as you can see below. He liked this, although he didn't want to sleep in the way we wanted him too.
11 July, 2008
Hillsongs
We got the new Hillsongs live album today, and i thought it might be good to use that as an excuse to blog about Hillsongs and the Australian church.
For those who may not know, Hillsongs is a big church in Sydney with something like 20,000 people who belong to it across many congregations, including satellite churches in London, Paris and Kiev. They are reknowned throughout the worldwide church for their worship songs. Every year for the last 15 years or so, they have put out a live cd from their church, or more recently their conference. They also put out albums from Hillsong United, their youth programme, as well as childrens cds and special cds for things like Christmas.
For a large majority of modern Christians, including us, Hillsongs form part of the soundtrack of our life. The style has changed over the years, the early albums sound like Abba crossed with the Blues Brothers, although recent years have seen them move to a more U2-ish stadium rock style sound.
The hillsongs template is highly influential for uk churches, and especially in pentecostal churches, we look to Australia for leadership before america. The combination of passionate worship, down to earth Biblical teaching, a passion for hospitality and social action all presented in a contemporary way with a high standard of excellence are hall marks of the best Australian churches. Hillsongs, and churches like them, inspire us.
For those who may not know, Hillsongs is a big church in Sydney with something like 20,000 people who belong to it across many congregations, including satellite churches in London, Paris and Kiev. They are reknowned throughout the worldwide church for their worship songs. Every year for the last 15 years or so, they have put out a live cd from their church, or more recently their conference. They also put out albums from Hillsong United, their youth programme, as well as childrens cds and special cds for things like Christmas.
For a large majority of modern Christians, including us, Hillsongs form part of the soundtrack of our life. The style has changed over the years, the early albums sound like Abba crossed with the Blues Brothers, although recent years have seen them move to a more U2-ish stadium rock style sound.
The hillsongs template is highly influential for uk churches, and especially in pentecostal churches, we look to Australia for leadership before america. The combination of passionate worship, down to earth Biblical teaching, a passion for hospitality and social action all presented in a contemporary way with a high standard of excellence are hall marks of the best Australian churches. Hillsongs, and churches like them, inspire us.
Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award 2007
Plymouth is not the cultural capital of the world, but it's great that there are 2 good exhibitions in the city centre at the moment. Scribing the Soul is still on, but an exhibition of top entries to the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 competition is being displayed in the 'currently being enhanced' City museum and gallery. Some of the pictures displayed are simply stunning and i'm sure Rocky and I will be making multiple visits over the next few months.
Here is my favourite picture which was in the animal portraits category.
01 July, 2008
Things that we can do
Rocky got to paint again at nursery last week and this is the result. We have pinned it up on our kitchen wall, which was a good moment.
It feels like suddenly everything is changing with him again. He's not always easy company at the moment as his top teeth are pushing through. However, he is crawling at speed, able to pull himself onto his knees, eat a banana without it being mashed up, and even, when the wind blows in a very nice direction, understand that it's better not to grab the digital tv box when mummy or daddy says no.
Things feel like they are changing fast for rocky. But in a good way.
Where where at
For the first time in a while, i really think that we can say we're doing alright. Alex is settling back into work and we're finding ourselves into a routine. I'm also finding it easier to get into work, at the moment i am working on a summer devotional for our church and i'm getting involved in the older adults ministry.
We had a really busy weekend with friend's wedding but that was fun, even if it was a little weird to be without the little one, who my sister sarah baby sat excellently. That meant we did not get to watch the doctor who episode until sunday. but we have watched it 3 times since, mostly at my insistance. Also enjoying glastonbury highlights and wimbledon.
All in all, life is pretty good at the moment.
We had a really busy weekend with friend's wedding but that was fun, even if it was a little weird to be without the little one, who my sister sarah baby sat excellently. That meant we did not get to watch the doctor who episode until sunday. but we have watched it 3 times since, mostly at my insistance. Also enjoying glastonbury highlights and wimbledon.
All in all, life is pretty good at the moment.
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