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Wednesday, 11 June 2008

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    Apologize With One Republic
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    Next Step Forward.

    Yesterday was kinda of a big day for Julia.  She sat the Life in the UK test.  Every person that wants to settle in Britain has to take this test.  Its so that you know a basic(or so I thought) bit about where your living.  I thought that it was going to be basic, easy questions.  I was very wrong!  I am British and I don't think I could have passed the test.  Julia Studied for months and finally took her test yesterday morning at 10am.  I spent a nervous 2 hours waiting for her outside.  But.......SHE PASSED!!!!  This now means that there will no longer be any issues with immigration.  Yippie!!!!!!

    Once she got over the excitement of passing the test, she got excited once again when she found a magazine that she was in.  It's a local magazine called 'The Hub'.  The kiltmaker she works at was featured and there are pics of her making a kilt.  She's very excited!  I was also in a magazine this month.  The magazine is called 'Skirmish'.  One of the writers is a archaeologist called Dr Tony Pollard.  He is the worlds leading battlefield archaeologist and we have done a few events with him.  Every month he writes a new article about where he's been and what he's been up to.  Over the past few years he has done alot of digs at Culloden Battlefield and during the opening of the new centre, was taking visitors around and explaining what he found.  He took a few pic's of us with him, and they were featured in his article.  Julia's magazine was only local.  Mine is published world wide! In her face!

    Next weekend I am going south to take part in a charity event.  We are going to put on a battle for Marie Currie.  I have been writing the script and making some extra things that were needed for the event.  i.e...gun slings, bayonet scabbards...... My fingers are killing me!  Sewing leather is a nightmare!

    Only about 10 days until I leave for Germany to see my brother and his family.  I'm very excited!

Wednesday, 04 June 2008

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    This Is The Life
    By Amy Macdonald
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    Your all going to hell!

    Bet that caught your attention!  Well, there is a guy in town that walks up and down the high street with a banner chatting to people about Jesus.  For the past few week he's been very quite and reserved.  Things changed today!  He was walking up and down the street telling people they were going to hell.  No opening, no gentle start, just telling people that they are going to hell.  I was standing in the street waiting for my dad and just watching him.  He went from person to person, telling them the same thing, pushing leaflets into there hands.  A few people laughed, a few were offended, a few were foreign so they didn't understand.  But what I didn't notice, was that there was no love.  The message he was shout, wasn't in love or with love.  It was angry and confrontational.  The gentle and quite message I had seen for the past few week had just disappeared.  Before people looked and listened when he stopped and talked.  I even saw people take leaflets and information.  Today, the only thing people took with them was anger and pushiness.

    As I watched, I thought about my MC days.  I remembered the street ministry in New York and Birmingham and the inner city ministries.  I hoped that I had never pushed my message with anger.  I remember kids who heard the message with a hug every week.  Families that saw the love when we made a point to visit them every week just to see how they were and pray with them.  That's the message I hope I presented.  It's the message that changed me!

    As my mind wondered, the street minister headed right to me.  He told me I was going to hell.......it took a minute until he said "unless".  I spoke to him for a while and noticed that nothing I said mattered to him.  He was hear to tell me his message and that was that.  He walked away and I met my dad, but a few minutes later I passed him further up the street, where he was shouting and teenagers, and he shouted across the street to me another message of anger.  It made me sad!  It made me sad for a few reasons.....I just found out that I'm going to hell! Just kidding.  It made me sad because the loving message he had presented weeks before was gone.  Also in all that he shouted, people only walked away with a sense of anger and humiliation.

    I, in no way meant this as a put down to that man.  He's out doing what many wont.  I just wish that the message was one of love instead of anger and hell.  All the time I spoke to him I waited for it and it never came.  It made me sad!

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Friday, 25 April 2008

  • Time to vent!

    I hate it when people tell you things that are obviously a lie.  They think your stupid enough not to notice.  Just as bad is when people say things because they think it is what you want to hear.  They are condescending and instantly back track when called on it.  They say things to fluff their own ego's or to make themselves look better. I hate that! They lie when they think they are going to get something out of it!

    I really dislike people!!!

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

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    Hitman (Unrated Edition)
    By Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen
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    Germany!

    As a few of you may know, myself and Julia will be going on holiday to Munster, Germany in June.  My brother lives there with his wife and daughter and we all lived there as a family nearly 20 years ago.  I loved this city!

    Here are a few pic's for your enjoyment:-

    untitled This is part of the old city centre.  That is St Lamberti church in the distance.  If you look above the clock you will see 3 cages.  The city was once held by a religious group called the anabaptists.  Once the army captured the city back, the bodies of the leaders of this group, were put in these cages as a warming.

    untitled A better view of the cages!

    untitled This is St Paul's or the Dom.  The old city was built around this.  Every Wednesday, there is a open air market outside it.  Amazing fruit! (Note the copper roof. Cool!)

    untitled This is the Prince Bishop's palace.  Major power!

    I am really looking forward to seeing the sites again!

    P.S. Germany spawned the sexiest man alive. Matt Simpson! (Happy now Matt?)