According to the e-mail I got from the DSU today:
“The results of the referendum on affiliation to the National Union of Students that took place between the 8th and 12th of March is as follows:
Stay affiliated to the National Union of Students: 1217 votes
Disaffiliate from the National Union of Students: 1295 votes
Therefore Durham Students ‘ [...]
Mid-march is a time of mixed emotion in our home; sadness, remembering, thanksgiving and a whole load more I guess. Mothering Sunday is normally around the time of my mum’s birthday and so it’s a time I think of her quite a bit. For those who didn’t know my mum this obitury in the local [...]
I write, she does film so it’s fitting whilst people like me do written blogs people like Head into the Heavens move into video blogs. These are like mini documentarys and well put together ones like the one she’s started with have a huge potential I think to be discussion starters with small groups, particularly [...]
Interesting article in the Baptist Times this week on church websites and the way churches aren’t always getting a grip on them. The article talks about a survey from the Church Insight web company, a survey which it appears is currently unavailable. It makes the point that churches that focus their websites for outsiders are more positive [...]
Went to a public lecture this evening by Bishop Steven Croft on the subject of “searching for simplicity beyond complexity, developing liturgy for a mixed economy church”. Was an interesting lecture which was calling for a simplicity in liturgy which was contextually relevant and also for a deeper appreciation of liturgy, particularly amongst Fresh Expressions and the [...]
The man in the printers today was a bit eccentric, but he was also very sensitive. One wonders what emotions he has seen expressed by students in the course of his time there when people go in and utter the kind of words TOH was today, “this is my PhD thesis which I’d like bound.”
He [...]
Folk Against Fascism have announced that there is going to be a FAF CD out late April, (available in the shops in June). It can be ordered from the FAF shop.
There is a FAF St. George’s Day celebration on 24th April at the Sage, (and yes I know St. Georges Day is 23rd, but obviously this is the day [...]
So this is the week that a wibsite rant turned me into a glossy media tart in the TES magazine. The online version doesn’t have the piccie, which the paper does.
I have had a Facebook cull, as people may or may not have noticed. Probably very few of the 200+ people I deleted as friends will even know who it is who has taken their number of friends down slightly. The reason for this trimming back has come out of some thinking I’ve had going [...]
Today was the end of an era, we had the last service before alteration to the church building I worship in. For the next few months we will be worshipping in a community hall. As storage space is an issue someone had the great idea of giving us our hymn books in a reuseable cotton [...]