Today the tickets still haven’t arrived (am panicing and ready to commence battle with the automated service again) but the postcards from Dave at the CartoonChurch have arrived and v.good they are indeed.
Now just need to decide who I can strategically send them to.
When a company has near domination of a service it appears that they feel their customer service is of secondary concern, or perhaps that is my cynical side coming out.
On Friday we travel down to the Wychwood festival to commence this years festie season. Today being Tuesday I felt it was reasonable to be [...]
Re. the last post – sorry for spelling errors (I really miss edit) & note before you read it, yes it is long – forgot to put the public health warning on.
As mentioned in the previous post I feel DIY:the rise of lo-fi culture by Amy Spencer should be mandatory reading for anybody interested / involved in alt worship and/ or emergent church / emerging church. Whilst I may at times run the risk of being accused of being reductionaist let me start with a quote [...]
Have just read DIY: the rise of lo-fi culture by Amy Spencer (publishers review and useful picture of cover here).
It’s an extremely well written whistle stop tour of several aspects US and UK (predominantly) “underground” culture, involving writing and/ or music. It focuses mainly on zines and independent music, but does look at blogging and [...]
Emerging Hermit has tagged me to play a game where I give my 6 wierd habits/things.
Have to say I have found myself stuck, quite a bit on this one, which is why I’ve taken so long to respond. Largely because I get stuck sometimes deciding what is wierd and what is quite normal, but [...]
I have temporarily ceased being the big bad parent and am enjoying approx 48 hours of me time. As usual not to be wasted.
Fri night : Walk the Line – Film on the life of Johnny Cash. V. good, Reece Witherspoon can sing really well.
Sat: Off to the Tate Modern to explore the rehang. IMO [...]
Yesterday I had a bit of a moment when I started to wake up and smell the coffee, realising that my view of things has been a tad messed up and I have clearly missed the obvious. I was able to take action which was a small step to changing my priorities but it’s going [...]
Amongst my reading at the moment I have two books which are generating completely different reactions from those I expected them to.
Book One – The Secret Message of Jesus, by Brian McLaren
I have to admit that I believed the hype on this one. That it was going to contain something radically different and potentially life [...]
Classic piece of understatement today when a woman comes running along to the bus that has just stopped near her house and says “excuse me you’ve just knocked half my garden wall down”
The bus driver just replies, “well it was a tight fit”
As a passanger on the bus at this point I was thinking, [...]