Visit to the movies… another video blog.

I went to see the Da Vinci Code last night. I didn't have much time to post, and I'd quite like to. However I had to go on a fairly long drive, so I waffled about it to my phone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVEuk8221DE

Videoblogging on a LG U8380

I thought I would try videoblogging so I tied my new mobile to the steering wheel of the car (with one of those annoying red elastic bands that the posties can't be botherered to pick up). The phone is an LG U8380, it is a great phone. I got it from themobileoutlet.com. They do a 12 month contract on three and they refund the entire phone rental (you have to send your bills in to claim it).

What Not to Wear.

I just had a phone call from a researcher from the BBC program "What not to wear". They had me worried for a moment, I thought I had been nominated! They wanted me to advertise the fact that they are looking for participants in the program. They sent me this and asked me to distribute it.

What Not To Wear is looking for people to take part in the new series

• Were you a teenage mum who now feels you missed out on crucial opportunities in your life?
• Mother of the bride and don’t know what to wear?
• Are you with a man at least 15 years younger than yourself?
• Are you a widow/widower who’s ready to take your life in a new direction?
• Have you had a mastectomy and need some help adapting your wardrobe and your mindset?

Is this you? Or someone you know? What Not To Wear wants to hear from you now. Call 020 8752 6044/0208 752 5759

So if your feeling like gaining your five minutes of fame... ...

Easter Break

Easter Break We made our annual pilgrimage to the east coast for the week running up to easter. Spring Harvest is a conference that takes over the Butlins Holiday camp in Skegness (and Minehead). We like it, the kids love it. You can be at meetings from dawn to dusk, but we like to chill out a bit and not do everything. I always try and organise my holidays so that I go away on a Monday so that I am not faced with leading services when I return. Easter is always different, the good thing about returning to conduct Resurrection Sunday service is that I have some familiarity with the theme! The services were packed with action today. It was good to see so many people enjoying themselves. I feel refreshed and ready to get back into the week ahead.

Talking about technology

I just got back from talking to a year six class at Skerton St. Lukes about how I use Information Technology in my work. I was there at David's invitation. Once we got over the fact that I don't sit looking glum from one Sunday to the next, but that I can be quite busy, the conversation was great. I particularly enjoyed playing Alice singing "When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears" and talking about why we played a clip from the Incredibles in a church service. The other topics we touched on were:

• Using Mobile Phones.
• Using E.mail, VOIP and Instant Messaging.
• Blogging
• The point of RSS feeds.

I enjoyed my visit, I hope they enjoyed having me.

In Charnwood on Sunday

We will be going for a gentle stroll on Sunday, meeting at the lower car park of Beacon Hill at 2:30.  If you are in the area and would like to catch up with us, that would be great.

Thoughts about pursuing an MPhil.

I have started pursuing the idea of further organised study and have started another blog in order to store my notes and thoughts as I work towards it. I decided not to swamp this blog with it because this one is more like a personal diary. So now I have three blogs:

1. This one, which contains my ramblings about me, my family, my home, my work and my hobbies.
2. Brave or Foolish, which contains my developing talk notes and theological perspectives.
3. study.graham.doel.org, which contains my notes as I work towards an MPhil.

Life in the fast lane.

• Alice had her fourth birthday.
  I suspect I'll wake up soon and realise I'm in my 40's (not that there is anything wrong with being in your forties) with a house full of teenagers. Isn't it funny how time passes so quickly.
• Libby (16 months) pulled my laptop off a chair.
  There is a couple of big cracks in the case and the network socket doesn't work. I access wirelessly via church at the moment. My wireless access port at home is broken and being fixed or replaced. Other than that it is still working fine, amazing considering this is it's second brush with death. Last time I had to take it to pieces and glue the power socket back together. Some keys still don't work after I spilled coffee on the keyboard. Have you ever wondered why I don't use question marks. Like I say, it is quite an amazing machine, surviving abuse by the first and second generation!
• The house has subsidence.
  It could be worse, at least we are insured for that! More on another day.
• I am really enjoying my work.
  Working for churches is not without its problems, but then no job is. The preaching experiment seems to be going well. If your interested you can read about it on my religious blog. http://bible.graham.doel.org/2005/10/20/ reflections_on_preaching_and_current_experiment
• The network at church is finally up and running.
  After several lunch time meetings with Matt we have a functioning network with an old PC working as a a firewall and a content filter. The content filter can be a bit verocious for example if I told you that it blocked p* o*rn it would block this post. Our main aim is to offer confidence to the youth leaders. They can let the kids use the copmputers without the fear of the computers being flooded with photos of pop stars in compromising attire! We have used smoothwall and dans gaurdian for the project.

Conference

I have a two day conference in Manchester this week.  I will be meeting with other newly accredited ministers from within the Baptist Union of Great Britain.  With the perparation for the services and other things I suspect It's going to be a struggle for time this week.

Blog depression

Are you suffering from blog depression.  I think Matt and Chris are!

Thanks to Storyteller for the link. 

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