Ashburnham 2005

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Let me explain. St Helen’s church, Bishopsgate has a particular small group called the Partnership that somehow my family were involved in – I’ve never quite been sure how and always forget to ask. Each year there is a Partnership Summer School – a week of Bible teaching, relaxation and incredibly late nights (at least for the teenagers). It takes place at Ashburnham Place and so the teens who’ve attended over the past few years (some have been going for all their lives) it’s known as Ashburnham. This is what I was doing last week. But I’m not going to bore you with detailed stories. A later day will come when I will write of some of the things I realised/learnt/discovered etc., but this is not it. Now is the time to tell you all that Ashburnham Place is wonderful, walking round the lake at around one in the morning staring at the stars is a fantastic experience for a city-dweller (you can see the Milky Way!), Malachi is a far more interesting book than you might think (and, as all Old Testament stuff taught well is, amazingly relevant) and there’s always something new to learn from passages you’ve read and studied hundreds of times. Go read Malachi. Or if you’re not a Christian, read Luke instead. I think he quotes Malachi but that might be one of the other gospel writers. Incidently, Luke is the only gospel writer whom one of my generation in my family hasn’t been named after. And on that random note, au revoir. I’m allergic to half of my job, incidently.

Currently listening to Mr Mellow – Maynard Ferguson

Matthew @ 18:05, August 5, 2005 to Diary | Comments (12)

Comments:

Rory

You’re allergic to the police?

Comment added at 23:20, August 5, 2005

Matthew

Yes. that’s right – all that law-abidingness really takes its toll on my sinuses.

Comment added at 23:22, August 5, 2005

Mr E

What are you really allergic to? Are all those evidence bags covered in dust mites?

And, just out of curiosity, how late are “incredibly late nights”?

Comment added at 11:36, August 6, 2005

Sheepie

And why, may I ask, is this in the ABC category?

Comment added at 11:36, August 6, 2005

Sheepie

Incredibly late nights means between 1 and 4 in the morning on most days and no sleep at all on the last night.

Comment added at 12:01, August 6, 2005

Sparticus

Did you meet a guy called James Taylor at this thing. He works for St. Helens but in a different department (whatever you call it in churches).

Comment added at 18:09, August 6, 2005

Matthew

I met William Taylor and his wife and daughter, but not (to my knowledge) James. Any relation?

Sheepie: good point. ABC is the first category alphabetically, so when I forget to select one…

Jonathan: Sheepie’s right about the nights. I was generally asleep by one, except on the penultimate night when I stayed up till four thirty and the final night where I got no sleep. And yes, it’s the dust in the evidence store. There’s bags in there that have been there a couple of years – dust builds up quickly in that kind of room.

Comment added at 18:37, August 6, 2005

Rory

James Taylor is a famous rock/country musician. I’m quite fond of him.

So are you keeping your job, Matthew?

I don’t know why your CSS isn’t loading in Safari, it works on most other sites… consider using a @include within a <style> tag… Get Johnny to test it ;-)

Comment added at 10:37, August 7, 2005

Matthew

No idea how long I’ll stay at my job – I doubt I’ll last the whole year, but I’ll need to find something to replace it. At least I have a good reason for leaving so that it doesn’t look like I just have no sticking power.

I don’t want to use @include, firstly because I shouldn’t need to and secondly because I can’t remember if you can specify what media a stylesheet applies to. I’ve been meaning to write a print stylesheet for months now.

Ashburnham 2005

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