So I’m here at the end of week 1 of my veggiexperiment and so far (other than accidentially sticking a small piece of cold chicken in my mouth before thinking ‘hang on’ and spitting it out promptly) I’ve succeeded. I haven’t actually missed any meaty stuff other than the smell of the forbidden fish and   Read More …

For a long time now I’ve been a big fan of the punk-rock band Relient K and they’ve always been a band to show variety mixing pop-punk with piano riffs and even ranging to do songs with a hint of country. Their latest album release ‘Forget and Not Slow Down’ was brought for me by   Read More …

On Friday night Jo and myself headed to the 02 Academy in Sheffield to see Texan punk-rock band Bowling for Soup who were being supported by The Leftovers, MC Lars and Zebrahead. I first saw Bowling for Soup live when I was 17 in Norwich and they were infact my first gig so seeing them   Read More …

I very rarely tune into politics however the media got me but after all the hype about Nick Griffin of the BNP appearing on Question Time I gave in to the media and watched the episode on iPlayer (you can do the same here) and also watched Nick Griffin’s YouTube response to the experience on   Read More …

So last night was my first main meal as a veggie in my month of veggie experimenting and I managed to bake a fairly successful and tasty mousakka thanks to my Delia cookbook. Mousakka is a greek dish made with Aubergines, nutmeg and cinammon amongst other things…it’s sort of like lasagne but with aubergine instead   Read More …

A while ago Goywonder whose blog I read set himself 2 targets, firstly to give up alcohol for 6 months and secondly to blog everyday, those targets/experiments have since finished however they got me thinking. Alongside this thinking of blogs with challenges I seem to know more and more people who are vegetarians and I’m   Read More …

As I mentioned on my last post and on my twitter account this week I’ve been away on a Scripture Union schools work training week and I’m sat in the ‘chill-out’ area of the Kings Park conference centre using the wifi and taking some time out after 3 and a half days of sessions on   Read More …

I’m off on a Schools Work training week with Scripture Union this week so will probably be away from blogging…I have no idea if the conference centre has WiFi but I’ll be taking my Macbook just in case! I’m sure I’ll have plenty to blog on when I return!

I’ve been following John Sentamu (the Archbishop of York) on Twitter for quite some time now and today he alerted followers to his article in ‘The Sunday Times’ on prostitution which you can read here In the article Sentamu discusses the problem of prostitution mentioning that 75% of those in prostitution become involved before they   Read More …

Last night Jo and I went to see ‘The Invention of Lying’ in the cinema. I went to the film largely because of Ricky Gervais being the writer, director and main actor in it so held high expectations as we entered the cinema to catch the start of the film (and the Orange adverts which   Read More …

Every so often I find myself bored of my blog template and for the last week have been toying with new, slightly more ‘news’ orientated templates online and have finished my search with this new look. Not a lot has changed on here to be perfectly honest apart from two minor things! Firstly ‘Featured Posts’   Read More …

I’m not a fan of Big Brother (infact very happy it’s been axed!) nor am I a fan of those who go into the Big Brother house. Alongside this much like Russell Brand I have a love-hate relationship with The Sun newspaper although 9 times out of 10 alongside the BBC news website I read   Read More …