Archive for September, 2010

This morning I was up bright and early for a 8pm youth worker’s meet-up at Costa…so as I sleepily arrived and ordered a Fairtrade Americano I was disappointed to be told that ‘Costa no longer do Fairtrade’….although cheerily informed that it was all Rainforest Alliance’ This bugs me because whilst Nero refuse to do anything   Read More …

Today ‘The Sun’ had an article containing the diary of a couple who lived 300 miles apart and it got me thinking about long distance relationships (Sun article here). Most people who read this blog will know that prior to getting married in July Jo and myself managed our relationship and wedding prep long distance…whilst   Read More …

Categories: Articles, Joanna

You may remember reading a slightly sarcastic (in places) comparison between JCC (Effectively PCC but joint with Methodist peeps) and the Baptist Church meeting (link here) back in November as I attended my first meeting…well whilst tonight’s meeting wasn’t the short meeting I’d hoped for after 3 days away it did include some classic quotes,   Read More …

Categories: Articles, Christianity, Church

I’ve had my album linked on the top 10 free albums from Sound Sunday which is lovely of them and I’ve had lots of downloads (well 40!) as a result which is awesome…it’s amazing what you find when you google yourself… Anyway have a read here Or look at the screenshot below Generally nice comments   Read More …

As Apple announced a new range of rather good looking iPods (although the new shuffle proves the world wasn’t ready for an ipod with no buttons) they also announced the launch of ‘Ping’, the Apple version of social networking…here’s what Apple say about it: There’s no better way to discover new music than to find   Read More …

Categories: Articles, Media, Music

I’ve just eaten what is a rather late lunch and as I was doing so I picked some mold off the bread and made it into a sandwich… Yes…I did just say that…I picked the mold off my bread. Not that my bread was completely green and fuzzy…there was no sandpaper involved in locating the   Read More …

Categories: Articles, Ethical Living

If you missed my song Joanna on Premier Radio earlier you can hear my whole radio feature here If you did hear it or you don’t want to hear a fairly poor sounding radio recording reminiscent of when you used to record radio to cassette and make mixtapes then you may want to download my   Read More …

Categories: Articles, Joanna, Music

Back in May I released my first full length album titled ‘Escape This Town’ but I’ve never really done a lot to publicise it other than the odd tweet and link on my blog however a month or so ago I sent some demos off to Premier Christian Radio and UCB Radio with the hope   Read More …

Categories: Current Affairs, Joanna, Music

As I previously mentioned this year Jo and myself headed to Greenbelt after the encouragement of a good friend and the temptation from Greenbelt of a free youth worker ticket paid off so on Friday we packed up the car and headed down to Cheltenham Racecourse. We arrived at around 12 and joined the queue   Read More …