starbucks July 22, 2007
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starbucks
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well tomorrow (Monday) sees the opening of a new Starbucks coffee shop near my office. In reality the area does not need any more coffee shops, they are present by the bucket load. However, there is something safe about a Starbucks….you know what you are getting, the seats are more comfortable than in many other places and you can guarantee paying over the odds!!! However, the likelihood is that I will partake of their joys on the opening day but likely to stay loyal to my usual haunt through the rest of the year. Tomorrow is a coffee day 
quotes July 18, 2007
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was tidying some stuff up recently and found a few pages of quotes. many were forgettable, these were not!!!
“We often fall prey to the temptation of measuring youth ministry leadership based on communication skill, vision, enthsiasm, organisational ability, personality, gifts, raw guts. We need to be reminded of the single most essential ingredient needed for being useful to the master – “Personal Purity”. Paul Borthwick in “Feeding Your Forgotten Soul“
“Too much of our orthodoxy is correct and sound, but like words without a tune, it does not glow and burn, it does not stir the heart, it has lost its hallelujah! One man with a genuine glowing experience of God is worth a library full of arguments.” Vance Havner
“Every evangelist runs the risk that the seed of the gospel, once planted in the life of a new believer, may grow into a dynamic force which threatens to overthrow the very status quo in which the evangelist finds comfort and rest.” Jim Wallis
london July 15, 2007
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london (HDR)
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what a great city! took this shot whilst looking over the city from Hampstead Heath. It is my first attempt at HDR (high dynamic range) pictures and am fairly pleased with it.
It amazes me how much construction work is happening in London at the moment, just hope the famous landmarks remain visible with all the new stuff planned.
Conquering the Atlantic July 12, 2007
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This book was given to me as a birthday present a few weeks back and I found it an exciting and riveting read. Just could not put it down. It charts the story of Ben Fogle and James Cracknell crossing the Atlantic and their brutal honesty is appealing. Two men, very different in outlook and approach, joined together as a team. Their motivations were different, the challenges similar but the determination to succeed in both men was extraordinary. Both men learned a great deal about themselves with Cracknell (an olympian) seeing his desire for competition as necessary to his life rather than Olympic Rowing was quite an eye opener for him and one that has since changed the direction in his life. Both men showed great guts in spending 50 days in an ocean separated from everyone and acting like a cork in a bleak watery wilderness. Some great insights and well worth a read!!
