Edited highlights from ‘God Loves You’

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A selection from ‘God Loves You’

A selection from ‘God Loves You’

Crazy Christian leaflets are always entertaining, especially when the English is worse than an IKEA instruction leaflet. Here of some of the edited highlights from ‘God Loves You’ – notice that heaven doesn’t seem to be a particularly nice place and that eternity only seems to last 1000 years now.

For more details please visit www.jesusalive.co.uk or get in touch with Revt Nimal Wijesekera [Evangelist – you don’t say!]

God loves you! And remember, “99% living in this planet believe the heaven and the hell. Every one wants to go to heaven not to the hell.”

The Rebel Sell

The Rebel Sell

So, armed with £20 of Waterstones vouchers to spend (thank you Sally!) I set off to get some holiday reading for our two weeks in Zante before we leave on Thursday. Page turning thrillers or delicately crafted novels are out. Instead – I bag the only copy of The Rebel Sell – a book about counterculture and why it doesn’t work. In other words, it’s counter counter culture. Maybe that’s why Waterstones had it hiding in a stock cupboard. Anyway – looks interesting! I await with baited breath “How Counter Counter Culture Became Counter Culture”

It’s time to finish these diaries! Eton – Saturday 9th July – the close. We had our last breakfast and then arrived for a talk about ‘applying yourself in interviews’ which might have been dull without the brilliant sketch in the middle. There was also stuff about applying to university complete with a mock UCAS form “that you can try filling in right now!” Wow, they’re keen…

Matthew and I

My parents then arrived sparing me a coach journey back, and then we got to our grand presentation that we’d been practising for, ur, the best part of two days! Despite the slightly sombre tone the London bombings had given us Matthew and I still got people to laugh (it’s all in the charisma – not the script) and we finally got our hands on those all important certificates. Plus a nice CD of all our music work. Hurrah!

Group Photograph

So that was it really. I have actually kept in touch with a few people, especially the lovely ones who said nice things about this website and Atif, who’s carried on the marketing debate via email. I leave you with a Guardian article about the whole thing.

Getting away from all the technical posts – I saw this film the other day and it was really quite good Johnny Depp is fantastic, I kept trying to see Captain Jack (from Pirates of the Caribbean) beneath Willy Wonka but he just transforms himself for each role. And the music was much better than the Gene Wilder film… only thing I didn’t like was the extra ‘backstory’ (it made Willy Wonka too human – I was never convinced that he was!) and the use of ‘candy’ \ ‘Band Aid’ \ other Americanisms all the time. Oh, and the timeline was rather odd – the factory didn’t close a mere 10 years ago! Did it?

I wonder if they plan on making the sequel. Could be a bit claustrophobic if they stick to long scenes with everyone trapped in the glass elevator – but I’m sure Tim Burton could work his magic if need be.

And on a completely unrelated note – after being completely drenched in the rain today I hope no one ever dares to complain about teenagers wearing hoodies ever again.

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