Went to a great Wedding on Saturday, the Bride and Groom are so lovely and such a sweet couple! We had a couple of German girls staying with us and we got on really well so it was a really good weekend. I even got to the play the violin in the service which was so much fun!

Came back Sunday afternoon in time for Highfields which was great - I'm really getting to know people now. One of the girls is moving house next Saturday so I'll be able to take a car load for her which should be fun!

Had a great weekend in Manchester catching up with Anna Buckley and Henna Wilson, they are both doing great! Anna is well on her way to becoming the world's best English/French Primary teacher and Henna achieved 349% of her targets at work but even so has exciting plans for the future which will mean a big change!

I had a nice time on Tuesday - at a Catherdral service - not usually my thing but I was invited and I thought - why not! It was a celebration of 10 years of women priests in Wales so it was full of women vicars - vicar of Dibley and all that! At the end of the service all the women vicars in their dog collars were 'processing' down the aisle to the last song of 'We are marching in the light of God' and they were literally dancing! We were all clapping along to the music and then when they'd finished they decided to go around again getting the men vicars and even the Bishops to join in the dancing - it was so unlike you imagine a cathedral service to be and it was so much fun! The preacher also said about how they'd come a long way as women but they still had a mountain to climb - a purple headed mountain! (Purple being the colour the bishops wear!) Well if it's right for women to be vicars then why not bishops - the Bible doesn't make a distinction - they didn't even have bishops in those days!

OK brief recap of my life in case you missed it! I spent 2 years on board the ship Doulos travelled around the Mediteranean, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Now I moved to Cardiff, Wales, UK and have a new job. I'm living in St Micheal's College and go to Highfields church and Cardiff Symphony Orchestra - check out the links.

Woohoo finally I have the internet - it's very slow but after many months without it I appreciate it! If you want to keep up with the news you really need to get my emails by joining the yahoo groups below.

Blogging by email

I forgot how to do this but maybe it's possible!
Well at the moment I'm in Malta - I've just spent New Year with my parents on board which was great - they got to see everything I usually do and meet far more people than they'll be able to remember I'm sure! I have so many friends from all over the world!
Do have a look on the Doulos website as they have up to date photos and news of where we are and where we're going.

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
takes a while to get posted....

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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!

Well I'm not a grammar god like Mad but I'm not too bad either!


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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...