Had a lovely lunchtime with some of the guys from St Mary Redcliffe... lovely to see some of the Devo guys as well. They Rock!
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
St Mary Redcliffe
Had a lovely lunchtime with some of the guys from St Mary Redcliffe... lovely to see some of the Devo guys as well. They Rock!
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Do I have OCD?
I have just gone through all the postings on the blog and added 'labels' to them - essentially ordering them, 'putting them in neat little boxs'... all of them...
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Joel @ Mullers # 3
Today... Hannah (his girlfriend) actually called me in from another room to take this photo!
Monday, December 04, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Thursday 30th Nov (backdated)
I'm currently sat in one of those swanky coffee cafe places, sipping on my overpriced 'caramel macchiato' and tucking into my 'brie and cranberry' foccacia (nice!). I had planned this. Even the sitting and writing part. It was to be my little oasis in what seems to be, or at least feel like, an everincreasingly busy lifestyle of 'working for the church' - in between all the various church meetings ans the running about. A little pause for thought.Around me are all the various other people you'd expect in such a place - the mothers & babies, the teenaged-giggly-girls, the passer-bys all too busy to even sit down and drink a cup of coffee. You see there's a wierd paradox of things that went through my mind as I sat there with all these strangers.
That afternoon I received a random phonecall from my pastor - he asked me if I would come on a 'pastoral visit' with him (in about 15 minutes time - this is not unusual for him!). We were going to visit a guy called Dennis. Dennis recently wandered through the doors of our church during a conference, a little worse for wear, living rough and suffering a little - he had a real encounter with God and is now trying to sort stuff out (he is as we speak in a little B&B on the other side of the city, tuning in his combiTV/VHS that we just dropped off for him).
His room is probably a quarter of the size of the coffeeshop I am currently sat in and contains a single bed, a chest of drawers and the now aforementioned combiTV/VHS - there are no trinkets, photographs, souvenirs or in fact any personal reminders or affects of any kind.
On our way to find one of those aerial extensions for his TV, we meet Diego - one of Dennis' new housemates. He tells us about his step-sisters birthday and about his extended family. He seems quite a genuiene guy who's more than happy just to chat, more than happy just to share a little bit of his life. It seems odd that I have spent time now with these other strangers here in this coffeeshop than I did with Diego, yet I know more about him.
We eventually managed to find an aerial extension for Dennis before having to rush off again. The visit was brief - a pause in the routines of life. Yet it is one of those things that are help shaping me and the perspectives of life at the moment.
My little oasis has been spent not thinking about the troubles that had previously occupied my mind but here in my unexpected little 'quiet time' I find myself thinking about the opposites of life and how life seems to be more and more held together by tensions. That it isn't one extreme or another but actually both of them and somewhere in between. That life itself is not really a series of fixed points held rigidly together but a series of things held by the elastics and flexibilites of 'love'.
To be honest, I probably could have had some tea nad toast at home... but I didn't. And the cost was probably twice that of the money Dennis borrowed to buy some tobbaco. I'm left feeling slightly guilty and slightly surreal but mostly humbled by the One who gave it all ... for me, for Dennis and for Diego.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Road trip: Dublin - 21/11/06
Myself and Mr Collins decided to take a little trip to Dublin Tuesday before last... not for any real reason but hughely becuase we could... so there!
The whole kaboodle
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Christmas Food 2
Remember what I said about Christmas food and specifically Christmas Pizza! ... well flipping Pizza Express had this board outside their restaurant in Clifton... the nerve of it...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Protege Plan @ The Loui
Roberto & Gang took on the Louisana last night and did a sterling job - nice one lads! If you missed them check them out at www.myspace.com/protegeplan.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Happy Birthday to you...
Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Tom Newton-Smith...Happy Birthday to you! Yes Woodies very own Peter Pan turned another year yesterday. To preserve him (and the author of this blog!) of any embarrassment, we shan't reveal his age but wish him salutations... Tom you're still cool but your taste in accessories might need some attention!
In true 'Smooth' style - five words that describe Tom: Charmer, Blonde, English, Childlike... and er Tom.
Joel @ Mullers # 1
Joel is part of our year team at Woodies and as part of that, he, myself and a few others attend the Muller Training day... to be fair ALL the year team work really hard and they are a lovely bunch. This photo was taken about a month ago.
CarCrashTV # 3
I can try to account for cultural differences but I have no idea what this guy is doing
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Separated at Birth # 1
(top) Da Benz - Silvey & Akin-Smith; (bottom) The Proclaimers
You can laugh at me as much as you want at hanburyclub.co.uk but can any one spot the difference?
Monday, November 06, 2006
Strange Bins...
Not sure what was going on here... maybe they have special bins for each hour of the day...
Friday, November 03, 2006
Man I thought I had time on my hands: Diet Coke & Mentos
If you've not heard about this before - this is it done properly.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Live Bees
I guess you can't really accuse them of not really warning people... it certainly is 'does what it says on the tin'... in fact you'd have to be a bit of an idiot to go in there, with such an explicit sign and all!
www.church.co.uk
Steve Chalke spoke yesterday in Bristol, very intersting! Check out the church that he is part of at www.church.co.uk
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