James Ots

When I got back to England I stayed at my parent’s house for a week, before moving in to the church house in Coventry. A week later I had to move out of there and I moved into Roger and Sally’s for a week. Now I’ve moved to James and Jane’s house, and next week ...

After all my photos of chaos on the roads in Kenya, I thought I ought to balance it out with some photos of chaos on the roads in England. What do you think? (Note to Kenyans: That red thing is a traffic light. In England, red means ‘stop’, not ‘oh look, the traffic lights are ...

I’ve just been to the annual Academy of Music Ministry Concert, and it was the best yet. For those of you who don’t yet know, AMM is a music school which doesn’t just teach you to play good music, but ‘equips young people for every area of music ministry’, to quote their website. One first ...

Had a good day yesterday. Went to church in the morning and was pleased to discover that I still know lots of people even after a year of being away. After church some of us went to the Saxon Mill which is a pub near Warwick, where we had dinner on the picnic tables outside ...

Nearly 8 months after my last hair cut I finally got round to getting it cut again. I got up this morning and my hair was annoying me too much, so I got it all cut off. My family say I now look like me again, but I’d got used to having too much hair ...

I’m back in England. It was raining in Birmingham when we landed. I only got about half an hour of sleep. I’m knackered. I’ll write something vaguely interesting when I’ve had some sleep. Or if I can’t cope with interesting, I’ll at least try something more verbose.