Friday, June 22, 2007

The speaking tour continues

Last night Young Families (read my mum and her cronies - not exactly young families any longer) at church put on an evening with Emma Swarbrick - me talking about Kenya. We booked the meeting room and I got in touch with the diocese to borrow a data projector (let it be said at this point that Blackburn is THE most ridiculous city to drive around, I seem to view the cathedral from every angle in ever decreasing circles before actually making it to church house). I showed a DVD, my photos and I talked, a lot. Lots of people asked questions, some people asked difficult questions, some people asked lots of difficult questions, I didn't attempt to look more knowledgeable than I was. I enjoyed myself and everyone said it was interesting and well presented :) and they raised £70 for Education for Life - all good! Next stop Ripley St. Thomas. And today I was booked by one of my primary schools to do another assembly :) yey!

3 comments:

_joelfe said...

Getting in to the cathedral car park also presented me with similar problems the first (and only!) time I was in Blackburn cathedral...I had to park on a random street and go in a kebab shop for change...! I was in a distracted state of mind at the time, but clearly it wasn't just down to that :)

Emma said...

No, my mother also found it somewhat challenging today when she returned the projector!

_joelfe said...

It's silly! Cathedrals are meant to be big places that you can't miss and therefore easy to get into :)