Hooray – I’ve got a card reader for my CompactFlash cards, so now I can get the pictures out of my camera and onto my computer again. So here’s a picture from the weekend away. I didn’t take anything worth putting on the photos page.

This past weekend was the last ever New Horizons Church Weekend Away and as usual, I really enjoyed it. As well as lots of sitting around chatting to old friends and making new friends, I also did archery on Saturday and rock climbing on Sunday. In one go at archery (four shots) I got two ...

Actually, the times, they a-changed a while ago now. Its the weather that’s a-changing at the moment. This evening, after going to Ristorante Etna for Jon-Man’s leaving meal (where I had the best steak I’ve had for ages), we went down to The Glasshouse and sat round a table outside and had a few drinks, ...

When I shared a house with Dave and Mark they kept trying to persuade me to go climbing, but I never did. But a few weeks ago I went for the first time and really enjoyed it, so now I have a harness and shoes and stuff like that and I’ve been once more and ...

In the last week I drove approximately one and a half thousand miles. On Tuesday I drove to York where I met up with Nomi and Bonny and looked around the town and bought a sword. We stayed the night at a hostel (with a glowy light just after the steepy hill) near Harrogate, and ...

That’s right, Scotland. Again. It’s so depressing coming back home and being stuck in a terraced house surrounded by more terraced boxes, with a view across the other grey boxes of Coventry. Especially since I was up there five days this time – it was starting to feel like home. (That’s Braincroft lodge right in ...

I’ve just added my writeup of my 1997 trip to Malawi to the writings page. It used to be on the old version of this site, but I’d forgotten to move it to the new version, until now.