Category: Life

By rights this should be a much longer post, but its past my bed time. Need that beauty sleep and all 😉
Just had a great weekend in the Lake District with Shirley, Amo and Karen. Its two days on, but my legs still hurt! Am I really that unfit? Or that old and knackered? In my defense, I did ascend and descend this:

Case closed. Or am I about to release a deluge of comments?

There was me thinking I was quite the traveller, but that’s a pathetic coverage of red really…

create your own visited countries map

Last weekend we saw something you don’t see in many churches in the UK these days. The place was packed!
For the last year or so, Baptism and Christening services at my home church, Grayfriars, have been standing room only affairs. This particular weekend saw 25 people being confirmed from several congregations across Reading. I always love this kind of service, as the body of Christ welcomes new members as they publicly profess their faith. We’ve taken to having times of testimony during the ceremony, and I’m so encouraged to hear the individual stories of God at work in people’s lives.

Continue reading Standing Room Only

So this was not me, OK? I did not write it. Barry was to blame!
Did cause much office hilarity though…
The following was entered into the comments section of www.kettlechips.co.uk
—–Original Message—–
From: pete.ward
Sent: 09 February 2006 13:57
To: info
Subject: Your Comments KETTLE WebSite
Forename : : pete
Surname : : ward
Email : : pete.ward
Your Comments : your chips are the best chips ever. they are the official chip of our office in chichester. they are so good i don’t even know what to do except eat alot of them.
Read on for the comedy response…

Continue reading IT WAS NOT ME!

Drawing inspiration from Shawn over in Portland, I thought I’d combine two of Schmetzger’s recent posts.
Firstly, I’ve been ultra slack in posting for the last month.
Excuse number 1:
I’ve moved house twice in three weeks!
And then there’s my current state of hirsute-iness.
Excuse number 2:
I’ve got a million boxes to unpack, and I have no idea which one my beard trimmer is in.
Pete’s resolution for Feb – more posting, less excuses. Oh, and less hair.

Its that time again! Another busy year, another Christmas newsletter.
Wishing you every blessing this Christmas season.
Pete

Pob and I wandered around the lake at Linlithgow on Saturday, and I discovered that my old digital camera had discovered a bit of a glitch! The picture here is actually of Linlithgow Palace! I wonder if Gerhard Richter got his inspiration from something like this?

And here’s what it should look like…

Interesting artistic ponderings aside, I’d better get my screwdriver out…

As you can tell from my last prayer letter, things have been a little busy lately, so I’m glad to be taking a long weekend seeing friends in Scotland. I’ve known Pob and Steph longer than I care to imagine (I spent much of my teenage years with Pob), and they moved up to West Calder near Edinburgh about seven years ago, with Pob’s work.

Continue reading Trip to Scottieland

Feeling very cultural this evening, at the end of a good Saturday. A few weeks ago in London, I spotted that there was a lecture on some of Gerhard Richters’ work in the Tate Modern. Although I like his work, particularly the photrealistic stuff like Kirze, as featured on the Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’ album cover, and in the painting ‘Phantom Interceptor’, I think I would have ended up killing some arty pharty person going on about how the artist wasn’t imposing themselves on the viewer or somesuch nonsense. So in the interest of not breaking the 6th commandment, Amo and I headed up to Tate Modern this morning to check out the artists pictures for ourselves.

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Through a friend’s blog, I’ve just found *the* coolest piece of free gallery software in the whole world (OK, forgive the hyperbole, but its dead cool at very least).
In my luch hour (yep, that’s all it took), I’ve just downloaded, installed, configured and posted my first set of photos to my new online phote gallery. So, if your name is Sheena or Kathleen, you may be particularly interested in these, but if not, there will be more pictorial goodness in the near future.
How about the Brighton Boiler Room launch, for instance? All good!