Weekly Quote - W/E 30/1/10

"You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness. Buying a plow to plow your own children under, buying the arms and spirits that might have saved you." - The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Weekly Quote - W/E 23/1/10

" ' But I don't want to go among mad people', Alice remarked.
'Oh you can't help that' said the cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice
'You must be' said the cat 'or you wouldn't have come here' " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Cambridge 2005

More random pics, these were taken on a visit to Cambridge in 2005 on a youth camp - I think it was the first time I'd been.

Weekly Quote - W/E 16/01/10

"I've gone past my sell-by date already. It gets hopeless when you get older than five or six. You've stopped being a cute little toddler and started to be difficult. And I'm not pretty either." - The Story of Tracy Beaker, Jaqueline Wilson

White death from above!

Aaaaaaah! It's still snowing, what are we going to do, how will we live...

oh wait, snow is actually quite fun, apparently you can build snowmen - even go sledging. Plus you get to stay off work (which is slightly less fun if you don't get paid I can say firsthand!) and be at home.

But oh no - it's a disaster according to the news as always, rather than five minutes of snowball fight footage and creating igloos we get the danger statistics, and if you're utterly cruel like ITV news, footage of a woman falling painfully after slipping on ice repeated in between every news item.

What I really hate is the bit where they do show the kiddies enjoying themselves and end with a pessimistic line like 'it might be fun for these youngsters, but many of us will be finding it hard to laugh this winter. Back to the studio." Euugh, leave 'em to their fun don't drag the innocent into your fearmongering!

Well these are unusual circumstances in that it has snowed on more than two consecutive occasions within the same month so that's panic stations for us, and a normal day for many many places in the world. But should the situation continue the BBC have issued some guidance.

The situation does give rise to some cool stuff like this classic image of what is now known as 'Frozen Britain'










































Have fun out there everyone, and above all stay safe.

Word of the post: snow –noun

1.	Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air.

2.	these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.

3.	the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.

Weekly Quote W/E 09/01/10

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buenida was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." - One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Christmas treat

Another great moment from working with kids - this one during a Christmas concert - the reading is taken (phonetically) from the book of Matthew

'After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Maggie from the east came to Jerusalem'


















Dontcha just love it?!!

Word of the post: Objective –noun

1.	something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.

Weekly Quote W/E 02/02/10

The first of 2010!

"I am become death" - Robert J. Oppenheimer

Had this one in my head for a while - fun one to start the year eh?

Merry New Year!

OK so Christmas has been and stuff - I'm not good with the whole punctuality, Christmas for me is a time of year where I'm actually too busy to be on the internet and I regard that as healthy and a worthy goal.

I really enjoyed Christmas - a traditional family affair as always, though my inner five year old is always disappointed at the dwindling stack of presents you get as an adult, that and the lack of a LEGO moonbase or somesuch! But it was a really good time spent with friends and family.

The highlight was of course getting a white Christmas, something we hadn't had in a while. This was made all the more fun for me because of a South African family who have moved into our area and who hadn't seen snowfall before - so introducing them to snowball fights, sledging etc. made it all the more magical.

New year was ok, hung out with a mate and played a long game of poker - New Year's things are difficult for me generally as I'm not too fond of drunk people or fireworks so there aren't many events that I can access - but nonetheless we had a good time.

Right as always it's time to reflect and look back - so let's pick out some highlights of my year's blogging!

My first 'random picture post' - I've really enjoyed digging around the 'My Pictures' folder and posting stuff this year.

Splinter Cell World Tour - my imaginary travels around the world started here.

My 200th post landmark

Some Political Commentary

Digital Kid - one of my first posts to get some attention of Facebook

Blog Action Day - I kinds missed it this year, but it's an important event on the bloggosphere


OK enough of that - how about some reolutions - please bear in mind that I'm making these up right now so salt at the ready folks.

1. Blog more - duh!

2. I will not buy Xbox games for more than £30 unless it's a must buy now title like Halo: Reach

3. Be more organised, not losing bills and important paperwork like my driving license

4. Get a full-time job

5. Keep on top of my Coke[tm] addiction

That'll do - have a good decade folks!

Word of the post: Elongated

1. Made longer; extended.

2. Having more length than width; slender.