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So another Lent has passed. Our easter week saw us away on holiday visiting various places around Colorado. Good Friday we returned back to Denver in the evening but that is all for another post.
On Easter Sunday we woke up at 4:30am to go to Red Rocks which is an amphtheatre built into the foothills to the west of Denver. There we enjoyed a service where the sun broke the plains ahead of us halfway through the service. It was an impressive (if blinding) sight and one worth experiencing. We then headed home, napped for a couple of hours and then hung out with Sarah and Ethan the rest of the day. Playing lots of Settlers of Catan, watching British Touring Cars and eating roast lamb. A good day.
Read the full article - 205 words - 0 commentsWe enter our final week of Count Your Blessings 2013, a week for the next generation. It has once again been an interesting journey through Christian Aid's annual charity project and it was good to take part again.
Last week I raised an additional £6.20 which brought my total to £28.10
And onto the final thoughts:
Monday 25
Read the full article - 371 words - 0 commentsWe are getting further into lent and further into Christian Aid's Count Your Blessings. Last week I added £2.80 to make a total of £15.10.
Week 5's theme is a week for our precious planet.
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Three weeks into Christian Aid's Count Your Blessings and we enter our fourth. Week 3 brought in £6.70 for charity from myself. This brings my total to £12.30.
Week 4's theme is A Week for Women as we lead up to Mothering Sunday this coming weekend.
Monday 4 March
70% of the world’s poor are women.
Give 10p for every woman in your family who has a job.
Read the full article - 312 words - 0 commentsIn week 2 I raised another £2.80 for Christian Aid bringing my total to £5.60 by raising money with their Count Your Blessings program.
This week's theme is Food and Justice.
So the short week one is already in the books and I have already raised £2.80 for Christian Aid by Counting my Blessings
The theme this week is Peace and Reconciliation.
Monday 18
At the end of 2011, an estimated 42.5 million people were living in a place to which they had been forcibly displaced due to conflict or persecution.
Give 10p for every year you have lived in your current home.
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Once again Beth and I are not giving things up for Lent, instead we are completing Christian Aid’s Count Your Blessings where they give a thought for the day while also raising money for a good cause. I will once again be keeping track of our progress on the blog.
The resources are available here: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/getinvolved/lent-2013/count-your-blessings/resources.aspx
Wednesday 13 February
Ash Wednesday Around 24% of children of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa and 7% in Southern Asia do not attend school.
Read the full article - 265 words - 0 commentsWhile it was a great year for movies in 2012 it seemed to be a fairly lackluster year for games. I am also finding myself with gradually less time to play the big releases when they came out. It seemed to be a year when small games could shine though. In a year when I played just 12 new games the bottom of my top 10 may not exude quality but the top games were all ones I have greatly enjoyed.
10. Worms Revolution - PC
9. Catherine - XBOX360
Once again I asked my father to give his view of the best and worst sporting accomplishments of the year. Here is his (unedited) list for 2012:
Sports in 2012 - Or how to not mention the Olympics
Team of the Year - Chelsea. For knocking Barcelona out without leaving their own half and then winning the Champions League using the same tactics.
Sportsman of the Year (on two legs) - Andy Murray. For crying at Wimbledon and then winning the US Open. We all love him now.
