Groovy Monkey

I now have a new email address to reflect the new website – gord...@groovymonkey.net

Click the read more link and click the email address for the full thing :)

Pipex cancelled my internet today. No warning, no reason, just cut me off.

Sorry, you’re account is ceased. If you want to rejoin us, call our new customers team. Oh, and it’s tiscalli now, so we really couldn’t care less. Bye

Quite amusing really. This, pointless, blog-post was brought to you by three’s mobile internet service.

Welcome. I hope you like it! As you’ll have spotted, theres been a change of name, and a new look – my intention is to become a little better at the blogging thing – and if nothing else, to have gained a nice shiney new email address :)

Feel free to leave me a comment.

Gordon

Well… here I am away with another group of young people. SU Camp, week 2 -and, all things concidered, I’m holding up really well.

Last weeks camp was cool, interesting, and hard. I’m just uploading a picture from my iphone as we speak (yes, It’s sad, I know) to show you just how beautiful it all was. A centre just on the edge of Loch Tay, great weather on the whole and a really interesting and pretty cool campers.

There were many things I found hard – having the campers arrive a day later than expected meant lots of thumb twiddling – and entering a team of students from ICC was quite a challenge – great to be on a team with so many tallented people though. The young people I took along had a great time. Excellent indeed – and there were young people from all kinds of situations. There were also some brilliant conversations – I missed worship times each day though.

Now, having dashed home, bought some new clothes and slept lots, I then met this camp at a large shopping centre near Edinburgh. Nightmare! Loads of kids (70?) and parents bustling around in the rain – blocking roads, getting in bother from security – and eventually making it here to Lendrick Muir for another week.

Im holding up well. My treat to myself has been a mobile broadband thingy for my laptop letting me access the internet from here (via three, excellent deal) which has proved useful and I am sure will in the future.

Just a few years ago when I was ‘cutting edge’ (ok, maybe a few more) with mobile PDA internet access etc three were the least likely to offer anything other than their own very restricted internet. Now they are on to a winner – £10 for 1gb mobile access – PAYG. Well done three!

The kids here are enjoying themselves. LM is always easy in some ways – and I know, and work well with, a lot of the team. Thank you God. Its always easy to overlook these things. One of the young people with me here just bought his first Bible – cool! I also just had much success teaching some young people informally at an archery session – very pleased with myself.

Now, is that photo online…?

Eek. A gas explosion -with an amazing escape – not far from my office and home.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7425096.stm