Again it's been ages since I've written! But I have exciting news, I will most likely be joining the Ship the MV Doulos see http://www.mvdoulos.org
It looks really great! If you want to find out more updates then you'll have to join one of the email groups. I've only done one so far and that's for the teenagers - Guides, and church youth group and Due South campers who want to know what I'm doing! I'll do the grown up ones later.

That was a REALLY wet weekend! It rained sooo much! But I stayed warm and dry in my boots and waterproofs so I was happy. I then visited my parents as they have friends of ours from Romania staying and it was lovely to see them. What I hadn't realised was that the BBQ we were having for lunch my parents had invited the whole church along to - there were over 60 people round our house for lunch! It was mad but cool fun!

Off to Malvern Challenge tonight to get thousands of Scouts and Guides doing silly activities! Should be fun! Then seeing Romanian friends who are staying with my parents on Sunday.

Hello!

Blogging by email worked but in the wrong order - ah well it's a start.
I can now blog from my work machine (the website doesn't work as we only
have partial internet) I can read the blog too but it seems to take a while
to post.

The trouble with blogging more is that I don't have much to say since
yesterday! Well I have a meeting now about the Science and Engineering
Ambassadors for schools scheme which should be interesting.

Experiment with posting by email

Now I'm trying to post by email which should make it easier to post more -
we shall see if it works......

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Not sure if my previous attempt at blogging by email worked - perhaps it
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OK I've changed some settings but I'm now linking to Jon twice! Ah well I'm sure he'll take it as a compliment. Should probably learn some html so I know what I'm doing rather than copying random stuff and editing it but never mind.

I'll be at the Malvern Challenge this weekend so I'll see some of you there and then I'm off to my parents as our Romanian friends are staying for a few days.

I will try not to leave as long a gap before blogging again!

OK OK I've had lots of complaints about not blogging so I'm back!

Exciting news is that I've actually applied to join either the Doulos or the Logos 2 - ships which sail around the world with and international crew and sharing a message of peace with everyone it meets! If I get in I'll be off on 30th August which is very soon! see http://www.om.org - it's operation mobilisation that is the organisation which runs the ships and loads of other stuff too.

In other news I've done lots of Scouting, Guiding, Church and Orchestra stuff and looking forward to the National Scout and Guide Symphony Orchestra tour of Estonia. We're doing a concert in the UK before we go so please come along! High Cross Church Camberely (Surrey) 7.30pm 31st July contact djnsgso@yahoo.co.uk for tickets.

I'm now going to try and update all the links to other blogs as lots of people have new blogs - welcome to the world of Blogging James!

Last weekend was great, the Army won sadly but it was a really good match - the Navy were winning until the last 20 minutes when the Army got a couple of late tries. The atmosphere was great and we had really good seats and I went with a great group and we had lots of fun!

Off to Brum this weekend with the folks from Due South for a reunion which is going to be great fun - I can't wait! Probably wont do the diet any good but if I swim a bit next week it will help so hopefully I'll be OK! Looking forward to seeing everyone. Also we're going for a huge meal out which will be lovely.

I will get around to linking to more people's blogs at some point but not today!

Well hello again, I've quit the whole breakfast cereal thing as I got bored of it so now I'm doing weightwatchers which is OK except apparently I don't eat enough and also I don't have any scales so it's rather difficult to measure success if any! Anyway stuff the diet I have a great weekend ahead of me - I'm off to my first ever rugby match tomorrow (I've never even been to a football match!) it's the Army vs. Navy at Twickenham which should be amazing - we're supporting the Navy as we're going with some Navy officer friends but the Army are the clear favourites to win but you never know!

Then I'm off to see dog racing and hopefully not lose too much money as we know nothing about it at all and then after that (depending on what state I'm in!) off to a Pirates of the Caribbean themed party. Don't have a costume or anything and don't know if I'll get home at any point in the day to change or anything but I think I'm just going to take out lots of money in the morning and then just go with the flow and not worry about it!

Then it will take Sunday and Monday to recover I think! I'll go to church Sunday morning and then after that I think me and my housemates might play some board games or play monopoly on the games cube which is soooooo much quicker than in the real life game because you all have your turns simultaneously and it does your rent automatically and you don't have the frustration of someone landing on Mayfair when you own it and have a hotel on it but you didn't notice! Anyway now I'm rambling so have a great bank holiday everyone!

Hmmm not sure the html entirely worked in that last post but it's Friday afternoon so never mind! I'll work on it later.
2 more hours at work then I'm off to Guides!

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Still eating cereal but as I don't possess any scales it's difficult to quantify any effect. Off to the country this weekend with a few friends, should be fun and include horse riding and a nice meal out too.

Well I've kept fiddling around with the colours and I now have a respectable amount of the Lime Green! I just need to work out how to put pictures in now!
I'm back on the cereals diet again hoping to fit into some older pairs of trousers once again.
I'm off to the pub tonight to celebrate the end of my friend's projext which should be good though I'll probably be drinking water to save money for the weekend!

Logos

is the Doulos's sister ship which I went on a few years ago in Cardiff - they were both great - I really can't decide which I prefer!

Doulos

Lets see if this link works...

Well here I am again. I survived S's wedding though it was very stressful just being a bridesmaid let along being a bride. If I ever get married I'll have to have the day organised with military precision months in advance! The rest of Easter was pretty good got to see a school friend, we've not seen each other in 6 years and had trouble recognising each other! We still have lots in common so that was good. Saw my parents and also went on the Doulos a couple of times. I must try and get everyone else to link to this blog so that people actually read it now I've got the hang of it!

Oops I appear to have messed up something with the archives!

Well I'm still eating plenty of cereal - not convinced it's working but never mind! Really tempted to have Chinese tonight though. Planning to watch my new DVD of Love Actually after Guides tonight. FSO Concert tomorrow night - the Organ Symphony is going to be amazing!

Well I've tried to add links to blogs of various random and not so random sagga people but they aren't showing up in this computer somehow! Ah well I'll have to see.
I'm off to cubs soon and then on to farnborough symphony rehearsal ready for our concert on saturday. I'm a bit nervous as there is one movement of a symphony I can't play yet and I've not had time to practise! aaargh! Hopefully we're practising the symphony tomorrow night not tonight.

Well sometimes the links show and sometimes they don't. Ah well never mind!
I had a great time with Susie's hen night last Friday there were some very bemused waiters, taxi drivers, traffic wardens and street cleaners and that's all I'll say!
This was swiftly followed by the Sagga AGM which was great fun - I got to play the violin at a 40th wedding anniversary barn dance and then we managed to get through the AGM bit and elect officers, discuss and debate everything under the sun and still everybody is talking to each other more or less. I'm going to have a play with some html and see if I can link to other blogs now.
Oh and the jeans challenge is kind of going OK - doesn't really work on weekends but I think I'll stick with it during the week - dunno if I've lost weight but it certainly saves time shopping, cooking and washing up!

Hmmm can't get the links on the side to show up now!

Well yesterday I started the Kellogs 2 week drop a jeans size challenge - yesterday I had Advantage wheat flakes for breakfast and special K for tea. It saves shopping, cooking and washing up so I'm a fan already regardless of the weight! Anyway the jeans I bought last week are rather tight so I'll see if I can fit into them with a little less effort soon! I reckon if I go swimming as well that will help.

Oooh it did work! Cool!

I'm not sure the previous one worked...

Well this is my first adventure in the world of blogging! How exciting! I'll write more once I get the hang of it.....