At the airport

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Hi all! I’m going to blog on holiday (how l33t) and tell you about what happened when we collected our bags at the airport. I was carrying one of the suitcases when I suddenly realised – it was vibrating. Shit, that’s not good. Given the current atmosphere I’m just thinking… it’s a bomb! (Yes, we realised after that bombs explode, not vibrate.) Anyway, there was no way in hell my dad was going to let his suitcase be blown up by bomb disposal just because it was vibrating, and opened it anyway. It was Katie’s electic toothbrush.

By the this item is posted, I’ll be off to Zakynthos until 18th August. As usual, you can still leave comments to this blog but they’ll be held in a moderation queue until I get a chance to approve them. Don’t email me asking why your wonderful comment didn’t appear instantly!

Apart from that – enjoy August, and look out for some photos of a teddy bear penguin when I return.

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.