I jutht bit my dongue and it really hurths and now i talk with a lithp.
Ith wathn't jutht a little bite, ith wath a huge chunk or chomp or chew and my dongue ith thwollen!!
Now i cant talk properly and the pain ith unbeliethable
Ith hard thaying anything with a thwollen dongue i thound thilly!
I shall try not to do ith again.
I have been waiting for today for a few months now.
Both our Youth groups at church will be joining into one big group. So we will have an age range from 13 to around 21. And within this big group we will split people into smaller, age related, discussion/action groups.
It's going to be cool, exiting and different every week so that nobody knows (apart from the leaders) what will happen that evening.
Hopefully, on Saturday evenings and Sundays afternoons Frontline will be The thing to do.
When i went to the youthgroup when i was a teenager YP was the ONLY thing to do on a saturday evening.
It wasn't that there was nothing else to do, but rather YP was so cool and all my friends went. And there was no way i was going to miss out.
Hopefully we will grow that attitude in our Young People again.
For photo's and other cool stuff have a look on Sunday morning at. http://puppetdude.blogspot.com
August,and my almost a whole months holiday is over. I had the last week of July and the first two weeks of August off as a factory shutdown. A week back at work, and last week off. Now i need some money to pay some big bills. And i seem to have well and truly come back down to earth with a big bad bump.
Oh well i still have the new Youth term of youth work to look forward to and that is going to be really exiting.
And the football season again.
Did you know Bank Holiday Mondays started in 1871?
I didn't http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhis.htm
August Bank Holiday for me says it's the end of the summer and youv'e got no more holidays left till
Christmas.
But there again it also means the new school year starts soon, this year it means that the new Youth group starts at church.
We have new leaders with new ideas and new ways of doing things. We will be moving from programme based to small group based youthwork. In fact the only thing which isn't new are the people themselves. But hopefully in a few months things will change on that score as well and we will have new people regularly meeting with us.
At church it used to be that a visitor was a novelty and they would really stand out from everybody else. But these days we see so many new people it's normal. Hopefully that will happen to the continue to happen to the youthwork as people start to bring thier friends along.
oh well lunch time
Afriend has invited me into Gmail or Google Mail. It's a bit like Hotmail but i think it's better from what i've seen so far. You get i meg storage space for all your emails and they are stored as conversations, so you dont have to look at who sent the stuff but you get the first few words of the email which should remind you of the message that you are looking for.
I still have to play with it but it does look good. You can also search Google from you emails which is handy for me if i suddenly get an idea from somebodies message.
Oh well better go and get some food and then go on a treasure hunt for the Bible Club
A small experiment all will be revealed in a couple of days!
(coxydude, 26/08/2004)
Cornflake Diet.
Lose a Jean size.
Buy a good Mountain bike at Halfords.
Play Rugby.
I love the Olympics!
Learn to play Poker. http://www.puppetdude.blogspot.com
It's the second day of our Holiday Bible Club. It's great fun but also very tiring. The day starts at 845 when the puppeteers meet to practice the sketch for the day. Then by 930 all the helpers arrive, pray, and get themselves organised for the morning.
At 1030 the Kids arrive and then the fun really starts with songs,games, the story and other stuff. Everything is very fast paced and there's no time to even think about being bored (even for the adults) I find myself constantly thinking about what i'm supposed to be doing next, which means i'm not paying much attention to what is going on, ooops.
After worksheets, a quiz, and the ship lesson ( discipleship, fellowship etc) its back to songs and then before we know it 1230 has arrived and they all go home.
At 2pm it all starts again with the 10 - 14's with a couple of games, a talk and then discussion groups.
I'm shattered and it's only day 2
Last night i was in bed by 9pm and i didn't wake up untill 730 this morning.
It's hard work but great fun as well.
Right bedtime!!
I did the advertising for the bible club yesterday and gave out 110 leaflets and stickers. That doesn't seem much but i don't just hand a piece of paper to people and walk off. I give them the paper and tell them about it for at least 10 seconds and personally invite them along.
People are much more likely to come to things if you invite them in person. If you just hand them a bit of paper they are more likely to throw it away or not even bother to look at it.
It's very hard work doing leaflets like that, but it gets results and i hope to see lots of new faces at the Bible club on Monday.
The answer was an Armadillo http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/aradillo/
Well the Bible Club preparations are in full swing now. Friday afternoon we were decorating the church with nets,fish,boats,and palm trees. Today a few of us are going round town inviting people to go to the Bible club.
And then we will be down the church again untill 9 or 10 pm tonight doing final touches.
Normally the Bible club is the highlight of my year when some of us show just how creative we can be. But this year we are launching the new Youthgroup in September so the fun and learning and creativeness will just keep on going.
And i can't wait
I live in North and South America.
Am related to Sloths and Ant eaters.
Various species of me are called Nine Banded, Three Banded, and Pink Fairy.
Only the Three Banded can roll itself into a ball.
I can dig holes.
And i eat bugs
And my shell is made of bone.
Yep after three weeks off for the factory shutdown i started work again yesterday. And the wierd thing is it doesn't feel like i even went on holiday!
Nothing has changed, i still know how to drive a forktruck. I was kind of hoping that i would forget that part of my job and then i would have to stay at home. But no like riding a bike you never forget how to drive a fork truck!
Not fair
I did the Uncle thing yesterday and went to Whipsnade Zoo. It was a suprisingly good day out.
Although I thought the woman on the tour bus doing the commentary was a bit of a let down it went something like "oh there's an animal, look another one!"
I dished out more information on the animals to my nephew on the top deck of the bus than she did and i don't even work there. Perhaps i'm in the wrong job.
Also it was a nice clear night last night so i went to have a look for shooting stars up my local hill. I didn't get far because there were some other people up there (probably druggies) and i didn't feel safe so i came back down again.
If they let me out i shall probably be posting lots of useless animal facts.
And if you go outside and away from streetlamps tonight at about 10pm you should see lots of shooting stars (about one a minute) or you can go just before dawn tomorrow as well.
Polo is another sport that was once part of the Olympic games.
I thought it was invented by the Brittish when they went to India. In fact the first recorded game was played in 600bc the Turkomans v the Persians and the Turkomans won!
The Persians took the game east and it was played in India in the 16th century. The Brittish discovered the game in 1850 in India and in 1862 the worlds oldest Polo club, The Calcutta Clun was formed.
In 1868 Malta started playing Polo, thats because the Brittish stopped off at Malta on the way home from India.
Today 77 countries play Polo and it was last an Olympic sport in 1939
There you go i'm becoming a right minefield of useless information.
As the olympics start on friday i thought i would look at the sports that used to be part of the games.
Tug of War
Yes Tug of War was an olympic sport! It is a very old sport as well as it was practised in ancient China and Egypt.
It was also used to settle disputes in Korea, and the first recorded Tug of War matches in England were between villages in Norfolk in the 16th century.
And it made its last appearence in the Olympics in 1920.
The last time i saw Tug of War in action was two weeks ago in Bude, Cornwall. It was a part of a Beach Mission and is a great crowd puller and way of getting peoples attention.
And its good fun as well
Went to Luton today to see the film and to get out of the heat. The film was ok but my viewing pleasure was spoiled. Not by schoolkids throwing popcorn and stuff. But by Four little old ladies.
They were all talking very loudly through the trailers one of them almost shouted "can you speak up i'm a bit mutt n jeff" = deaf.
And i was shocked at the films they wanted to see.
The Bourne Supremacy which looks quite violent.
The Village which looks scary.
But they didn't want to see Dodgeball which looks quite funny.
I thought it was quite funny to have all these little old ladies with a lust for violence and horror but when something funny appears they don't want to know.
oh well
While i was shopping yesterday i went to Halfords just to look at Mountain Bikes. There were lots of expensive ones and i noticed one which i thought must cost around £200. But i discovered it was only £99 in a half price sale, so i bought it.
Now i ache all over which must be a good sign of something (possibly that i'm getting old) and i'm sure if i keep on i will lose some weight.
After my ride this morning it's off to argos to get some cheap bathroom scales. Then hopefully in the next few weeks i will see the pounds fall off me.
The weather next week is suposed to get even hotter with more thunderstorms which should be fun.
Might be a good photo opportunity.
Yes after a weeks holiday and eating too much it's time for the Cornflake Diet thingy to rear its ugly head again. But this time i shall also add cycling to the menu (no i'm not going to eat my mountain bike) I need to lose a few pounds so i shall go and get my bike back on the road today and then go for a good long ride/sweat.
I walk everywhere at the moment so a bike means i can go further, faster, deliver DOSS leaflets quicker, and do some blogging about where i live.
Well that's the idea anyway whether it happens is another thing.
I am Pirate Pete!
I am going to be his character for the bible club at the end of August.
What is really hard about being Pirate Pete is that i'm doing it with a puppet. I have to know the script for Pirate Pete and all the other characters off by heart. And that means listening to the same cd over and over and over again every day untill the end of August.
Then i've got to work out how my puppet will act and make sure i lip synch (well the puppet not me) to the cd perfectly.
I think it's going to be a very big challenge for me and i can't put it off so here goes.....
I did an aimless wander around London today, but due to the heat it was more like an aimless stagger! Things didn't start off very well this morning either. I set my alarm for 5 am so that i'd be up and waiting for the coach at 5.45 but i slept through the alarm and woke up at 8.45 instead.
Then as i got to Luton station i saw my London bus drive away and i would've had to wait untill noon before the next one came. So i went by train instead. I was on the train in Luton at 11.25 am and i was in Oxford Street in London by 12.15 which is a lot quicker than the coach.
I wandered around for a while and then found that the Monument was open so i climbed up the 311 steps to the top and admired the view.
The monument is 202 feet high and commemorates the Great Fire of London which started at the home of the Kings Baker who did the September 2nd 1666 version of forgeting to turn the oven off.
When the fire was finally put three days later it had destroyed 13000 homes.
oops
Hello i'm back. I went on Holiday to Bideford in Devon which was very nicw thank you very much, and i still have two more weeks of my factory shutdown to go!
I thinl i might go to London tomorrow and do an aimless wander with my camera.
I might get my mountain bike back on the road again as i havent used it in 3 years and i havent got a car anymore. It will also get me fitter than i am at the moment.
And i'm sure i will have many amazing adventures that i can blog about as i have a whole month off of Youth work and i intend to have fun
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