Dad, the loonatic

This is evidence of my dad being weird. The camera shakes a lot because I was having hysterics at the time... Love you geeky dad!

The Amazing Christmas Card Number 2

A few weeks of creativity culminated in the second amazing giant Christmas card going up at church. Tis late now, and I'm not giving anything away yet, but here's the beginnings of a creation...

A declaration of stupidity

Yesterday I went to a women's service at church run by the Oasis for Women team. I ummed and ahed about whether to go for a while, I had a headache and had got back from school late after a school trip. It started at 7.30 for 8 but by the time I had decided to go and walked into town I didn't arrive at church until 8 o'clock. And the doors were shut. So I dillyed and dallied outside wondering how I was going to get in. I tried to prise the doors open with my fingernails but couldn't. I wasn't really wanting to go in the back entrance in case things had already begun and I would walk into the midst of things. I contemplated walking back home again. Then I rang Sarah, thinking if she was in church she could come to the door and let me in, but she hadn't arrived yet. So I thought I'd give the door one more try and maybe push on the door a little to see if I could get a better grip with my fingernails... and the door pushed wide open. I thought the doors opened out when they opened in. It is official, I am stupid!

A challenge for Mike

At school each class is to make a Christmas display for the hall based on a Christmas song, it is not to be a carol. I was struggling with ideas for this one until Sarah suggested the song 'Christmas Wrapping' covered in recent years by the Spice Girls. I couldn't remember the song but began to plan how we could make wrapping paper for our display and this would fit in nicely with our ICT topic of repeating patterns. Cunning I thought. Until I went on the internet and discovered that Christmas Wrapping is the annoying song that goes 'Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, but I think I'll miss this one this year'... not exactly conducive to putting the words up in a Primary School hall I think you'll agree!! So now I'm on the search for another song about wrapping paper or present... any thoughts at all in the comment box please!!

Makin' Music competition

I promised a link to the video of my school singing Karl Jenkins' Cantilena when it was on the internet so here it is. Click on Goosnargh Oliverson's. I'm rather unfortunately in the shot looking like a twit in my over exerting myself conductoryness and for some reason they've posted both our first and second attempts. Don't bother watching the second one though (even though I'm cunningly out of shot) because it's the same but somewhat less in tune...!!! Votes are by buying the Lancashire Evening Post only though it would seem. So go out and buy the newspaper! Then send in your voting coupon for Goosnargh Oliverson's! (not Scotforth St. Pauls noooooo no no no no)

God's blog

I often sit wondering about my life and what I shall do with it and, more to the point, what God would like me to do with it. I sometimes think it would be helpful if God had a blog, or if I could type into google and ask what I should do... Unfortunately God seems to have this irritating habit of not being terribly prescriptive when I want him to be. Sometimes I even find him rather vague. I had an interesting picture of God once, wearing his Regatta waterproof coat and a pair of sturdy walking boots flashing an OS map in my face along with a cheeky wink and a smile and pulling me over a stile and through a field. Being the geographical map geek and (when it comes to navigation) control freak that I am I have an urge to wrestle the map out of his hands for a proper look myself, even if not to know the route we are walking on at least to know what the possible surroundings will look like. If God blogged... I think it would be a spraffy one.