Had a meeting this morning working on my annual report for the APCM, at the end of the meeting I was asked that dreaded question…
What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?
I thought for a minute and came up with these:-
Strengths: relationship building, evangelism/teaching
Weaknesses: Time management, administration
Of course there are others for both but these I would say I the main ones. I was very pleased that I was agreed with although another was added to the strengths list which was ‘role model’ which was cool. There was a point to this exercise though in that I am going to be given some support and help in improving these areas of weakness which I think will be really helpfully in enabling me to do my job better so fantastic meeting.
Email this postFirst technical problem encountered, those who subscribe via email don’t get video, not even anything to suggest there is anything so for my first attempted video email readers got this:-
New Look – Welcome
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Details for the new feeds can be found in the left hand column.
Which all appears a bit strange, I might have to start adding a line to say there is video on the blog!
If anyone has any ideas as to how I can get the video to email as well that would be great.
We have been sorting out some stuff at home recently, going through some of the boxes we still haven’t unpacked since we moved just over 2.5 years ago. I found some interesting bits of paper that I had forgotten about, I will share a few with you. The first was something we did during my first year at Bible collage, I thing it was latter in the year so we are talking around spring early summer 96. We did a where will you be in 10 years thing only we rote them about each other so here is a list of what the group thought I would be doing about now:-
In ten years time Simon will be:-
• Dr Simon Faulks (Very highly qualified)
• A Married Vicar in a band
• An organiser of music events and a reader in the CofE
• Long haired, with ear-rings, singing wherever he can get a gig
• The lead singer of a pop group called the “Plague” who will be world famous
• The next Martin Smith (I like this one but I wonder what they thought might have happened to him and also how I could be the next when I am actually older (if I remember correctly))
• A model for rainbow with George, Zippy and Bungle (where did that come from)
• Will still be wearing his hat (I do still wear it but not anywhere near as much as I used to, or should!)
• In a band called 3:16 and will play at gigs such as Living Water (Christian festival in Norfolk, I have done this one actually but I left the band to go to bible collage, this particular writer had been at the gig though!)
• After years of thought and preparation Simon will eventually dare to leave the house without wearing more than 12 colours on any garment. – Sadly I can still see him with a hat on.
I detect a bit of a theme here in that I am supposed to be in a band, I have to say I do wish I were but don’t really have the time at the moment, as for the hat, I still love my hats although at the time only had one a black Stetson style, I now have several hats many of which are quite wacky plus a brown Stetson leather style. As for the twelve colours I didn’t often wear that many colours together but yes I still do occasionally although in my defence it is now usually in the context of children’s work & clowning.
So if you found a similar piece of paper what would be on yours?
When OnMeBus moved to the new address I messed up the feeds, therefore you may have missed a few updates, it also broke the email link, this does now work but I’m afraid the feed address will change again when I switch to the new look hopefully tomorrow! (you will get a feed on the current address letting you know it has happened though)
Yesterday was the second Birthday of OnMeBus and it was the day I was hoping to relaunch with the new look etc, however there have been a few set back but that should happen possibly later today but more likely early next week.
I also wanted to talk about Top Gear though. Yesterday also being Valentines Gill and I celebrated with a Chinese take away and watched Top Gear (how romantic I know, but then it was about 3 in the afternoon before we even remembered it was valentines!) This was a repeat of Sunday episode so if you saw it you will know what I am talking about if not you can see the relevant clip here (I would watch it no before you read on!) Now I know that a lot of Top Gear now is about stupid stunts etc but I felt this decorate each others cars to see if you can get the other arrested or shot was going too far and in poor taste only made worse by the fact that it is only a few months since Richard Hammond nearly lost his life filming for the show! But this act was set up to deliberately, deeply offend people, now some of their stunts have annoyed people, drive time radio show, road resurfacing, trying to play golf and keep arguing and holding up the whole course, but these were not offensive unlike this latest stunt in America, there was indeed one point where they did nearly get them selves caught by the locals who were not at all impressed. What’s more it had nothing to do with the cars or even what they were trying to show you could do (or not as the case turned out which was to do a fly drive holiday but buy a car instead of rent.) I personally think this was irresponsible and distasteful programming by the producers and the BBC and I was very disappointed that they would call this entertainment.
The slight redeeming aspect of the programme was finishing off in an area that a year ago had been hit by hurricane Katrina and they were supposed to be trying to sell the cars, however they were so hit by the devastation that still existed that they offered them to a local charity who put them in contact with local people who still had no car after the hurricane took everything they owned.
Well after lunch I took some time out, we went for a bit of a walk and tried some sledging (well bin baggin really as we don’t have a sledge!) this didn’t work well but we did have a good few snowballs which was good then got home and built a snowman, photo evidence below, although it was again taken on the phone so not great level of detail, like you can’t see it has legs and feet but hey!
I just looked out and saw it’s snowing quite heavily again so thought I’d take a quick picture to share with you all.
The post below now seams even more out of date as it refused to post yesterday, so sorry about that, I have put a proper update at the bottom though!
Now I know I’m not the first to comment on the snow but I thought I should write something, after last years debate about snow on certain blogs, and the lack of snow we got in Faringdon, this morning we were greeted with a good 5 or 6cm, we then missed Zac’s school being mentioned on the radio as closed and so we got him to the school late to find out it was closed but hey, the picture is the phone box outside his school, as I’m sure some of you know I am a bit of a fan of phone boxes so this was a great opportunity, unfortunately I only had my phone with me though, I am currently working on saving for a digital camera but the one I like is around the £1000 mark, the problem with having worked in the trade before becoming a youth worker I suppose, I won’t be happy unless I know it will give the kind of quality I am used to getting from decent film etc.
Update: well this morning not quite so exciting, one child at pre-school but older son’s school still not open, he’s got the joy of shopping. I was intrigued y a notice as I arrived at pre-school this morning though it read ‘warning slippery ice’ this got me thinking, is the a non slippery form of ice? I’m also feeling guilty as I didn’t get the time yesterday to help the boys make a snowman and I feel I should have made it so I hereby apologise for my bad parenting.
Update 2: just looked out the window and despite all the forecasts we seam to be having more heavy snow at the moment, maybe I can build that snowman after lunch?
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