Monthly Archives: April 2003

In brief

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  • We’re off to Easter People on Wednesday. I’m doing stuff I’ve never done before, namely DJ workshops, some DJ worship and a gig.

  • We sang in three services at church over the weekend: Maundy Thursday (communion), Good Friday (Meditation) and Easter Sunday (communion). Not much voice left now, though.

  • Sheenagh and Dylan’s wedding on Saturday was a hoot – Simon and I DJ’d at the evening reception. Back-to-back was fun: best moment was the Fatboy Slim version of Eple Eple by Royksopp (Si) mixed into Billie Jean by Michael Jackson (me). Sweeeeet.

  • Mixed football feelings: Saints beat Leeds 3-2 on Saturday (yay!) then lost to Birmingham by the same score today (boo!). Just bring on the Gooners!


I’ve been trying to blog every day. I failed. Next month I’ll see if I can go a whole month without missing a day. We’ll see.

Downtrodden Christ

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Downtrodden Christ, to you we pray
who at the third hour of the day
were led away and nailed up high
in naked shame beneath the sky:
Show through the pain that scars your face
the love of God, and man’s disgrace.

Uplifted Christ, to you we pray
who at the sixth hour of the day
took all our guilt upon that tree
in darkness, blood, and agony:
Look on our pride and unbelief,
grant us repentance and relief.

Outstretching Christ, to you we pray
who at the ninth hour of the day
alone dismissed your final breath
and opened heaven by your death:
Come to our dying world and reign,
that we with you may live again.

© Christopher Idle (b. 1938)

CCD Burundi Web Site

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So for a few months now my parents have been in touch with a guy called Deogratias, who works for an organisation called Christian Community Development in Burundi. He works with refugees and orphans – kids whose parents have either been killed by the AIDS pandemic or by the awful inter-ethnic violence that occurred in the mid-nineties.


I’ve finally got the first phase of the web site up!

bq(http://ccdburundi.org.uk/).
Christian Community Development is a Christ-centered organisation with goals of assisting the poor and the needy of Burundi to know Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and to overcome poverty.


So please click through to it – we need to boost its ranking on Google. Link to it from your own site if you can as well.


CCD Burundi

You know the war is over when…

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…The BBC have the following story in their ‘latest news’ ticker:

bq(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2952533.stm).
Muffin the Mule, one of the most popular children’s TV characters of all time, is being revived by the BBC to mark its 60th anniversary.


While I deplored the wall-to-wall coverage in the early stages of the war, it feels as though Iraq as a subject has been tossed aside like last season’s jeans by a bored teenager. Global News Media Moves Too Quickly.


Read the rest at BBC News

Cup Final Tickets

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72,000 capacity, I thought to myself, that’s 36,000 tickets for each club. Except it isn’t, as the FA keep 22,000 for distribution around the country. Only some members will be eligible for tickets and, as we’ve only been to one game, I don’t suppose we’ll get offered the chance to buy one.

bq(http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/article.asp?article=141992&Title=Cup final tickets).
The club are currently in the process of working out how many games members will need to have been to in order to qualify for a ticket. Those deemed eligible will be contacted directly and will receive application forms early next week.

Update:

bq(http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/article.asp?article=142080&Title=The+joy+of+six!).
Saints members will need to have been to at least six home games this season to qualify for an FA Cup final ticket.


So That’s That Then. I won’t be going to the final, unless I can get hold of a ticket through another channel.


Saints FC: Cup final tickets

The things some people will do for semi-final tickets

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I was browsing the Saints FC website, as you do, and I saw a photo of a Saints fan who went to desperate lengths to get tickets to the semi-final of the FA Cup. I thought to myself ‘he looks familiar’ and sure enough it was indeed Brian Percey, from Andover Baptist Church, the church I grew up in! Brian ate pickled onions, wore a Pompey shirt and cleaned the Pompey players’ boots with his toothbrush. Much respect ;)


Read the rest of the article.

Bargain

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I wish, I wish, I wish. This rather nice Apple iBook
is currently going for £900. I specced up something similar at the Apple Store and it came to £2700, with all the accessories and extra software. There’s even an iPod!

Drool.

Update: The seller has just closed the auction, cancelling all bids. I don’t know whether to be sad or happy…

Spell Chequer

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Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.