I’m easily pleased. Having done an interrupted hour long on-line web design course, I somehow managed to design and publish a website from scratch and feel quite chuffed with myself.
It needs some tweaking and padding out, but it exists! www.edyouth.org
Very exciting!
Off we went to the local country park to consult the friendly park ranger on our belly button mystery.
Pigs do have belly buttons and I now know where!
While enjoying some Traidcraft honey, I read the label and realised it had come all the way from Chile. This started me thinking about whether this was really sensible. Perhaps I should have bought honey from the local farmer’s market which had not been transported round the globe and considered an on-line donation to a worth charity.
How can you support fair trade and the environment? Is it possible to end up in a state of “do gooding” meltdown?
I think I’ll stick to fair trade products that can’t be produced locally like coffee and chocolate. Yummy!
Picture the scene. A three year old boy playing in the bath with a realistic toy pig. Has examined all it’s appendages - teats, tail, ears and then questions where it’s belly button is.
I hadn’t a clue! They must have one somewhere or is my knowledge of biology very poor!??
I don’t know how many books constitute a library, but maybe if we go biblically - “when two or three are gathered together..”, we now have a mini resource library of youth and children’s resources.
A list of books held can be found at www.yoresources.wordpress.com (link also on the left) and are available to all in the Diocese. E-mail me if you would like any info!
I am getting there. The website for young people in the Diocese is taking shape as I dabble as an amateur in web design.
It won’t be flash, but hopefully functional. Watch this space - I still have to learn how to actually publish content to the internet. Once I have mastered that, there will be no holding me back!
Useful tip.
Don’t put on hand cream and then decide to throw the cat out.
You get King Kong hands.
I like Christmas. But I like it in December and not when it starts in the shops around early September. But I also have friends in various corners of the world, so having been shocked by the fact it was now November, I rushed to the shops last night to buy some bits and bobs to send surface mail.
Surface mail takes either a week or about 4 months, so who knows whether it’ll arrive in time for Christmas. Anyway, by then I’ll have forgotten what I sent!
The holly wrapping paper can now be hidden again and I’ll go back to my notion that it is far too early to be thinking about Christmas!
I sat on a different chair in my office yesterday for a meeting and this new outlook on life (and the surrounding bookshelves), caused me to find this book Christian Youth Work lurking in amongst other dusty titles.
It is 21 years old and I found myself giggling at the elasticated waists, perms and big glasses on the cover. Things date so quickly and this image is what lots of youth workers would want to run a mile from these days. But the content of the book, as I found out on the train home, is still very relevant.
Fashion changes, but the desire to share our faith with the younger generation remains. We still don’t have the answers as to how best to do this, but at least we are trying!
