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I’ve just returned from the gym and there’s one thing that never fails to baffle me about it…the changing rooms! I’m not a stranger to changing rooms with showers…even changing rooms with communal showers, after all they were present in the school changing rooms back in the day but no one ever used them! My [...]

Back in 2003 the Christian band Five Iron Frenzy called it a day…played their last gig at Filmore (USA) and the 9 piece band separated…I was 17 and had never heard of the band. It wasn’t until I was introduced to them by Ben & Hayley individually in 2004 that I eventually purchased their EP [...]

I’ve never been particularly enthusiastic about sports. When I was a child I used to play rounders with a local church group, I spent a month or so with cricket lessons before realising I wasn’t manly enough for a wooden ball to come hurtling at me and of course at primary school I spent a [...]

I’ve always been a little wary about posting a blog on politics largely because I find it difficult to engage with politics, I don’t have the patience (or passion) to read through policies and manifestos and whilst I believe that those who have the right to vote should vote I sometimes wonder how much difference [...]

Last night Jo and myself went to Manchester to see The King Blues play on their headline tour. I got into The King Blues just over a year ago and love their blend of ska and acoustic punk combined with fantastic, passionate lyrics. I first saw The King Blues back in September as part of [...]

So in the last week in my blogging break I’ve been to Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Sheffield, South Cave and London…lots of wedding planning done, lots of potential blogs thought of but I’ve resisted the temptation to blog…until now! I have a love/hate relationship with London…I got quite used to the business of our capital city [...]

Having been out last night, got in at half 2, watched the new Ashes to Ashes on iPlayer and then slept I didn’t awake until half 11 this morning…I crawled out of bed, went to the gym and now I’m sat at home typing this before heading out to Beverley for a couple of hours. [...]

As I drove past Morrisons yesterday on my way home from my gym I realised that it had almost been 6 weeks since I stepped foot inside my little local supermarket and I realised that come Sunday I could break my fast of supermarkets…the thing is the majority of me doesn’t want to! When I [...]

Sunday night’s youth group was themed around anger and the small group study turned out to be quite interesting. As Christians we tend to take 2 routes with anger. Firstly we take the ‘anger is wrong‘ approach and draw a line…then comes approach 2 in response to ‘didn’t Jesus get angry?‘ which comes in the [...]

I heard from friends that the panorama on the 24th March had been on chocolate, it’s origins and Fairtrade so I thought I’d give it a watch (you can too here). I have to say having watched Panorama on Primark I expected something negative…and in fairness I was half right. The program aimed to show [...]

A campaign has sprung up in the last month aiming to get the Delirious? song ‘History Maker’ to number 1 for Easter…the Facebook group (here) has almost 50,000 members (which I’m not sure is enough for a number 1) and is encouraging people to download 1 of 2 versions of the Delirious? song. Alongside this [...]

All over the world today is Palm Sunday and thousands of Christians everywhere will have received a Palm Cross and read Luke 19 where we read about Jesus instructing His disciples to go off and find a donkey and bring it back followed by Jesus riding on this donkey with people all around praising him [...]

I’ve just returned from the gender day I mentioned yesterday and will blog on it properly tomorrow however today ‘The Sun’ has an article with some fun things from Facebook so I thought I’d share on and link you to the others…they’re vaguely amusing, although my favourite Facebook group is still ‘I hate it when [...]

Yesterday I began exploring the idea of contemporary music as worship. I complimented the song writing skills of Paramore, Five Iron Frenzy and Family Force 5, had a bit of a rant and posted some thoughts on where we’re at with worship in our churches and a lack of passion (does this lack of passion [...]

As a musician and Christian I am lucky to be part of the few of are able to be involved in the church worship band which is probably a good thing because otherwise I suspect the music would have driven me away! More and more often I’m finding that the Matt Redman that crops up [...]