I’ve just spent some time cleaning up the bus. After a visit to the secondary school yesterday lunch time I was driving down a narrow road back to the farm where we keep the bus, coming the other way was a large lorry, he had no intention of slowing down and I ended up having to make an emergency stop. When I got back to the farm I noticed the problems caused by this action, everything had fallen out of the cupboard at the back of the bus and spread itself over the floor. Now this has happened before and is not usually a major problem, this time though there was an almost full 5l bottle of orange squash that did not survive it’s meeting with the floor, needless to say most of the squash was now over the floor. To make matters worse I had nothing on board particularly helpful for clearing it up and I needed to get the car back for Gill, 24 hours later when I could next get over to the bus what a nice sticky floor!
Lesson learnt? I need to put a lock on the cupboard door so it can’t open when driving!
Have a good weekend everybody!
Email this postOn Monday this week I finally launched an updated version of the website I run for the Vale side of my work (although the look is only slightly different in the background everything is now run using php scripts and things which makes life much easier in the long run). I was really pleased with how it all turned out, I then downloaded a patch for Internet Explorer 7 and of course after installing it the web site didn’t work! AAGGGRRR!!! So thank you Microsoft your patch has also broken my RSS reader, I can read the headlines etc but if I try to click through to the actual web site I just get an error message, this is the second time an MS patch has done this although last time it managed to mess up links in emails as well but they still work this time. What makes it even worse is that I only have IE on my computer for testing purposes so I don’t even use it and it still manages to mess up my machine, I knew I should have brought a mac!
A busy but good Saturday, spent at the home of the above mentioned and that part ended with complaints about my last couple of posts not being interesting enough to her, I personally feel the complaint is a bit rich coming from someone who hasn’t posted for almost a month and that last post being the only one for almost 3 months! (Time to talk)
So anyway back to the point, it was actually my mother In-laws birthday on Saturday (along with my brothers and the Queen’s (well one of her’s anyway)) Happy Birthday one and all. So we went over to send the day with family, it was a really good day however I did learn one very important lesson. Having had a normal breakfast before leaving we then had a good cooked lunch (sausage and mash, which yes Marion did make a nice change from the chicken casserole or pizza). We then had a Birthday tea, with sarnies, followed by very nice fruit scones with fresh strawberries and cream and then birthday cake. All in all a good food day. However once returning home we had been invited out to a local restaurant run by some friends for a hog roast and me being me I can’t turn down a hog roast, this again more fantastic food. The lesson learnt? 4 meals in one day while nice you pay for it later! But hey it was good!
I still like to consider myself fairly young, I know that for some who read this I maybe respectively young, for others and for many of those I work with I am considered quite old but on the whole I still think of myself as reasonably young, in terms of lifespan. I still (hopefully) have a considerable amount more life ahead of me than behind. But what has this got to do with Easter you ask yourself, well it was on Good Friday, at the end of the service that it stuck me although I consider myself still in the early part of my life it was at the same age as I am now that Jesus went to the cross. It just got me thinking about how much more of life I still see before me, the things I want to do, and I have already done more than some people of my age in terms of having a family etc that I want to enjoy as I watch and take part in their growing up. And yet for Jesus in terms of his human experience it was now at an end, most people of my age would feel the same about their future, for most of us the end is a long way off, were still in that stage of life when we don’t even really think about it and yet Christ gave it all up, still a young man, still from the human perspective with so much ahead of him, yet he was prepared to give that up for like likes of me!
Well there has been loads happening and several things I want to write about so where to start, I could go with returning to my office to find 4 dead hornets on the floor and another one flying around, nice experience, but I won’t discuss that I think I’ll start by talking about the state of the British media. Now I have to say in all honesty that on Saturday the only news I heard on the radio or saw on the TV were national BBC stations so I can’t comment on others or the paper but for both of these the big headline was Prince William splitting up with his girlfriend after 6 years friends ship and 4 of those going out. Car bombs in Iraq were further down the list and the number of dead were just mentioned in passing almost, but price William had several different people as experts analysing the situation. Both of them are in there early 20’s now from my work I see young people who go in and out of relationships to well beyond this age, some times they can be together longer as well, it’s part of life, it happens, LEAVE THEM ALONE! To be honest I’m not that bothered about his relationships, yes I expect there will be a big deal made when he finally meets the right person and decides to get married, and maybe that is right, he is second inline and all that but let him have a life, he has been born into a family that automatically restricts him in so many ways, he did not chose the life in the lime light he has to lead and surly he deserves (and his friends/girlfriends for that matter) the right to be able to live with at least some aspects of normality, it makes no difference to us so give him some space, let him live his life, he will have enough to contend with in the future, so let him be a 20 something let him have friends, go out with people and get to know them without the pressure of someone always looking over his shoulder to tell the world.
I am doing an all age talk in church tomorrow morning, it’s been difficult working out how to do something appropriate for all ages on such a theme but I think I have sorted it. Below you will find a video run through of my idea, it still need a little tidying and it would help if I don’t have a mental block on any key words tomorrow but on the whole I’m quite happy with it.
Enjoy
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