So I’m sat on a national express train on the way back to Peterborough just passing through Newark North Gate and realised that once again my blogging life has been on the quiet side this week. On Wednesday I learnt that Jack’s Mannequin are playing their first 2 UK dates in March so now have   Read More …

One of the big topics in Youth Work at the moment (other than porn which is Youth Work magazines focus point this month – blog to follow) is that of Social Networking and levels of appropriateness. One person I know suggests that Facebook for Youth Workers is a no, no with his argument largely based on the   Read More …

Tonight’s church service was a slightly different church service, for starters we had a bishop present, several methodists, some Anglicans, some Catholics (including nuns!), some baptists and probably some like me who prefer to avoid this denomination nonsense and call themselves Christian! All these representatives were gathered together from all the city centre churches in   Read More …

Apologies for the blog being on a go slow the last few weeks, I’m not entirely sure why…there’s been exams at uni and youth work to do but I don’t think any of them are real reasons. However the time I usually spend blogging I’ve spent putting together a new website for Park Road Baptist   Read More …

The Tesco saga continues, a couple of days ago I received a response to my second letter to Tesco. If you don’t have a clue what my Tesco battle is all about I suggest you read the book Tescopoly and read the posts in my ‘Ethical Living’ category. So here is my second letter from   Read More …

Today is the day that the final 200 Woolworths stores that remain open in the UK finally close their doors and the above picture shows the scene of Peterborough’s Woolworths this morning. It’s almost surreal to see signs on a chain store using the phrase ‘Last Day Today’ but wandering inside you see how real   Read More …

Some of the conversations I had over Christmas with people surprised me, I heard things about young people I used to work with in a church youth group that surprised me and it’s got me thinking. Just before Christmas I read a book called ‘Practicing Passion’ by Kenda Creasy Dean and she suggests that the   Read More …

Readers of this blog will know of my on going issues with Tesco which started by reading a book all about their practices and looking into some of their interesting tactics, this then led on to ‘Correspondance with Tesco Part 1‘ in which I wrote to them informing them that I would no longer be   Read More …

I’m almost 2 days late but ‘Happy New Year’…2009 has been going on for almost 48 hours and it feels pretty similar to 2008! New Years are something that I’ve only really celebrated in recent-ish years, when I was younger you’d simply go to sleep in one year and wake up in another, I remember   Read More …