Below is a picture of the newly installed speedbumps outside where I live in Peterborough…great you think, traffic calming…and yes perhaps they do calm traffic. Problem is that it’s actually less noticable and bumpy to travel over them at 30 opposed to 15mph! Silly speedbumps!

Just had a call from my tutor at uni to say that I am now a JNC Qualified youth worker of the level 2 variety (JNC Level 2) which is brilliant!

I have just become a contributer to this blog The idea of the blog is to provide news on the SPCK/SSG situation and any developments…not sure I have masses to contribute but who knows…it’s fun being  a contributer though (I should add that to date I haven’t actually contributed anything!) http://spckssg.wordpress.com/

This article on the metro website details some of Tesco’s pay-rates to people in other countires…can’t say I’m surprised at Tesco… Link For more information on supermarket’s and sweatshops see this link

I used to get loads of forwarded e-mails back in the old days, usually ones that told me if I scrolled down and forwarded to 20 people I’d find the love of my life or some other ruburb (there’s a word!)…however these days it’s only John who sends me them (I have included a picture   Read More …

So yesterday having returned from a brilliant weekend away with Park Road Youth I slept for ten hours…and today I’ve been with CROPS for the day over at Haddon (a tiny village of 60/70 people just outside of Peterborough) doing some clay pigeon shooting and driving a tractor…it’s been awesome…and tractors are hard to drive!   Read More …

I have just over a week left in Peterborough before an extended summer break and this weekend is a youth residential which I’m really looking forward to, the following sunday I’m preaching in the morning service at Park Road which’ll be a first for me…another first is that I’ve been given a specific topic. The   Read More …

The new version of Firefox is released today so follow this link and leave the crummy old internet explorer behind

So at tonight’s youth group the topic of ‘Enema’s’ came up, and much to my amusement one young person said (in the midst of confusion over what en enema was) ‘Isn’t that where they pour cold coffee into your bum’ After much giggling, bad coffee-bum related jokes we concluded it wasn’t, it was a brilliant   Read More …

This is such a plug but hey…I’ve just updated my myspace with some new songs and a new layout, if you wanna be my friend head over to www.myspace.com/marktiddy and add me!

In July I’m going to see Ben Folds in Sheffield and a while ago on his ‘Rockin the suburbs’ album he wrote a song called Mr Jones which was basically about someone being forced to leave a job they’d done for years because they were too old. Now I’ve been thinking recently about how true   Read More …

The bancrupcy of SSG a couple of days ago (people who run SPCK) has took an interesting turn when it turned out that the company who will now operate the shops in their administration is also owned by the Brewers who own SSG….I smell a rat here…and also what will probably end up as the   Read More …