Easter is usually a quiet time for me however this year we have a maundy thursday youth event plus the 24 hour famine over the Easter weekend which I’m working hard to plan alongside the mass of uni work that needs doing. At the same time I’ve been pondering the nature of Christianity, someone must   Read More …

Since buying an old G3 tower Apple Mac over a year ago and then buying my MacBook almost a year ago (and selling the G3) I’ve become a bit of a Mac geek…and they are…in my defense very pretty! So when I spotted an old 1ghz eMac on eBay for £15 with keyboard and mouse   Read More …

One of my most anticipated albums of 2009 was the new ‘New Found Glory’ CD, ever since first hearing that it was going to happen I’ve been looking forward to it. My expectations for it rose when I heard that Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 fame was producing it and I hoped it would be   Read More …

There’s been lots of new things on the internet in the last few years and each time I’ve thought ‘That’s a good idea’. Facebook is great for keeping in touch with people, MySpace was good for that in a more fun kind of way and even Bebo served some purpose. However Twitter isn’t an idea   Read More …

Often Christians struggle with ways to curse people, thankfully the people at Ship of Fools have solved that problem with a ‘Biblical Curse Generator’…curses straight out the bible… here’s a link and here’s a few good biblical curses! Listen, O ye whose name is but dung, for you will be whipped with a thousand scorpions!   Read More …

For those seeing the picture and reading the title and thinking ‘Ooh a Five Iron Frenzy post’ then I’m sorry because this is nothing to do with FIF…although I have recently purchased Brave Saint Saturn’s latest album and Roper’s one album and they’re awesome (both bands with the lead singer of FIF). If you’re thinking   Read More …

This article on the BBC Website details for plans for a minimum alcohol price…one example on this site is that you won’t be able to pay less than 50p per unit putting a bottle of wine at the minimum price of £4-50. In my opinion this is a stupid idea on many levels. For starters   Read More …

I’ll let you answer the question yourself….but 2 are more fun to photograph! Oh I love my camera phone (and Jo to of course!) From Blog Photos

Last night me and Jo went to Manchester to see Jack’s Mannequin on the second of their 2 UK dates on their European tour. I’ve been waiting a long time to see Jack’s Mannequin as they never made it here on their first tour and it was worth the wait! A lot of the tracks   Read More …

I don’t know how many of you readers caught ‘Deborah 13: Servant of God’ on BBC Three last night…I know I didn’t. I did however watch it on iPlayer last night. I read about the documentary on Saturday and made a point of making a note that it was on. The documentary followed 13 year   Read More …

I sat in the kitchen a while ago talking to Mark and enjoying the background music thinking ‘this song is quite good…I wonder who it is’ and then to my dissappointment Mark told me it was Lily Allen. Now other than that stupid winey ‘Smile’ song I didn’t know (nor want to know) any of   Read More …

The Fairtrade Foundation have announced a deal with Cadbury for the brand to go Fairtrade in their products. This is exciting news for Fairtrade fans everywhere for many reasons and is also good news for chocolate lovers who won’t have to pay excess for Fairtrade Chocolate. Read the press release here