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What if there was no light. Nothing wrong, nothing right.
All day I’ve been wanting to blog something. But I haven’t had anything to say. It’s been like that lately. I was listening to my iPod on the way home (anyone want to buy me an iPhone?) and I heard Coldplay’s ‘What If’. At that point I thought ‘That’s my title’ but then I realised I still didn’t have anything to say.
I thought I could talk about how well Wednesday did this weekend but realised most of you wouldn’t care. I was going to tell you about the course I went on last week but then I realised that would only be interesting for the educationalist geeks amongst us (only me I think).
I was, and indeed you were, saved by the delivery of next months Youthwork Magazine. I like it. This months big article is about the rise of Tesco Church - which sounds to me a bit like the Special K religion on The Simpsons. But I’m not going to talk to you about that. I’m simply going to tell you about The. Best. Thing. Ever.
Forget Nintendo Wii, forget PSP, online gaming and DSLites. This is the future. This is Dance Praise. That’s right. Now you can play your favourite Dance Mat game while dancing to your favourite worship songs! Genius… Er… Follow the link and look to the right. You can even get expansion packs with even more dance worship hits. And that’s not the best thing. You can even get the Veggie Dance Dance Dance. Dance along to all your favourite Veggietales tunes!
As I said. Best. Thing. Ever.
The best thing about hammering Southampton 5-0 is that my boss is an ardent Southampton supporter. He’s been very quiet this week! On a philosophical note re: your title to this post - is darkness the absence of light or the presence of dark; and conversely, is light the presence of light or the absence of dark? Is a chess board white with black squares, or black with white squares? Is…?
I laughed a lot when Andy told me about the Dance Praise. Is there nothing these cheesy Christians won’t think of plagiarising?!
On a different note, I’m eating my first mince pie of the year. It feels a bit naughty cos it’s only mid November…
Blog competition for who can eat the most mince pies of the season?? Starting now seeing as Gloria has. But it doesn’t include ones you buy yourself, its all about finding the occasions where they’re being served.
Mince pies with our lunch in London on Saturday, Susie? And in Oxford on Sunday, Katie? Then I’ll be winning.
Gosh this Mum Hoyland gets around doesn’t she?!
Ooo yes, where can I find in Oxford for some mince pies I wonder. Gloria you don’t need to feel naughty, it is only 6 weeks away after all!
Does the Dance Praise game have ‘Jumping in the house of God’ by WWMT on it? If not, it should. You don’t really dance to that though, you just jump.
Andy, your blog is magic. I don’t mean that in the Northerner sense of the word, meaning it’s really good (although it is), but many websites are blocked by the internet filter at work, and one of them is my mat-tanner.com webmail. However, there is a way I can get to it, and that is if I come to the blog first. For some reason, if I navigate there from here it lets me access it. Is there any sense in that? Computer-wise?
I think it’s just because the blog actually is magic.
Thats why so many parents belonging to the Christian-right don’t want their children viewing hoyland.me.uk.
A guy who sits next to me at work said that people were complaining at his church because they were having a Harry Potter themed party for the kids, turning the church into Hogwarts, and some people didn’t agree with using the church for something to do with the occult!
Oooh, a much-debated topic. I figure so long as they’re not actually doing magic it’s probably OK! Harry Potter and Hogwarts aren’t actually real, after all.
Yes it is…its amazing what you muggles dont see….
I think I can beat you all. I have had 3 mince pies so far….one of which was at a Mulled Wine and Mince Pie evening!
Just to add an extra dimention to Dad’s philosophy, is ‘evil’ an entity in its self, or is it a lack of ‘good’, or, indeed, a lack of ‘GOd’? Discuss.
What shall we dicuss?
Well… it is impossible to have a “lack of God” as he is omnipresent
I think I may lose because I don’t like mince pies
Should we have an alternative competition for the non mince pie lovers? Something to do with chocolate perhaps - I’d like that
I hate Mince pies! They are the worst thing ever, but do smell nice when in the oven, how decieving!
A chocolate alternative would be fantastic shall we say chocolate rolls or christmas tree decorations, I could do that! And so could Jonny.
I might hold a competition for the first person to find my new computer. It still hassn’t come! Its so annoying. I rang them to find out where it is, and he said it would arrive on friday, but to be honest I am not sure I belive him, I got the impression that he was just telling me what I wanted to hear. They took the money out of my bank about 30 seconds after I ordered it online on the 26th of october, and I still have nothing to show for it! If it does arrive on friday then I might not be at the reunion…
…that should be debreif, not reunion. You knew what I ment
Let’s face it, its a reunion.
Susie, its no reunion without you, its simply a gathering of people who lead a childrens camp every summer, its really nothing special…no I can’t lie it is. But you will be missed terribly, plus reunion aint that far away!