Ye Olde Trip
Yesterday I went to the oldest pub in England - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem. Curiously, it was just across the road from the oldest pub in Nottingham - go figure (check it out here:
Ye Olde Trip)
This pub is half built into a rockface, which makes for interesting rooms inside - all hewn into the rock. Great. Ali and Steve have decided that it's their personal quest to make me like beer. Beer makes me want to throw up so we might have quite a long journey before I *like* beer. However, I don't mind going to pubs. Don't necessarily need to drink beer.
In other news, Peanut died the other day. He is resting in peace in the St John's bins. Bless his core. May he rot in peace.
College is on half term reading week (for me it's sleeping week) and it feels like a ghost town. Hardly anyone's around and the weather is miserable too. Roll on next week - I can't wait for *people* to come back! Do you think I'm an extrovert?
Update: we just lost the weekly pub quiz. 35 out of 60. Appalling. Truly appalling. Mainly because we gambled on the last question and lost 8 points because we got it wrong. I rest my case.
Inanimate Objects
As we have seen, even inanimate objects like our beloved peanut can suddenly become infused with life, and assume a personality all of their own.
I got the following in a forward, and whilst it probably won't rival the response peanut got, it's nonetheless amusing.
You may not know that many non-living things have a gender (well we know after meeting peanut!)
For example:
1) Ziploc Bags -- They are Male, because they hold everything in,
but you can see right through them
2) Copiers -- They are Female, because once turned off, it takes a
while to warm them up again. It's an effective reproductive device
if the right buttons are pushed, but can wreak havoc if the wrong
buttons are pushed.
3) Tire -- Male, because it goes bald and it's often over-inflated.
4) Hot Air Balloon -- Male, because, to get it to go anywhere, you
have to light a fire under it, and of course, there's the hot air
part.
5) Sponges -- Female, because they're soft, squeezable
and retain water ..
6) Web Page -- Female, because it's always getting hit on.
7) Subway -- Male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people
up.
8) Hourglass -- Female, because over time, the weight shifts to the
bottom.
9) Hammer -- Male, because it hasn't changed much over the last
5,000 years, but it's handy to have around.
10) Remote Control -- Female...... Ha! You thought it'd be male. But
consider this -- it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it,
and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps
trying.
Peanut the Pear
Here's the newest addition to our college community. We found him hanging helplessly on a tree in the college grounds. As budding vicars, we couldn't pass a pear in distress. He now lives with Helen in Northwood.
Wireless Life
I'm typing this sitting on the loo...no not really. BUT I'm typing it with my laptop sat on my sofa, and me sitting in the chair opposite, typing on the wireless keyboard, using the wireless internet access. Just because I can.
I had a very productive week. Handed in my essay, which was very easy to do thanks to mindmapping (thank you Alyn!!) and sat through a week of lectures and morning prayer every morning. I better get used to this ;-)
Today, Ruthli came up from Crawley to help me paint the bathroom and hallway. Unexpectedly, we finished both within a couple of hours, so we decided to go to Ikea (where the world and his wife had decided to come shopping too) and spent money. Now I'm sitting here watching Ruthli put my chest of drawers together. And before you all gasp in indignation, she said she *likes* doing it - it's like a jigsaw puzzle, she said. Well I guess it is, especially when you're talking about Ikea flatpacks.
So now all that's not painted yet is the bedroom, but it's not too bad, so we'll leave that one for now.
Weddings and Start of Term
Congratulations to Clair and Jeremy!!!! Clair is now Mrs Brown. And therefore grown up.
I went to their wedding on Saturday, which was a lovely occasion. Loads of people there, the service was fantastic, loads of worship songs. It all went off without a hitch and now they're off on honeymoon, somewhere on Dartmoor I understand.
I took the opportunity to catch up with friends at my home church. I've only been away for two weeks, but it feels like ages, so much has happened in between.
Today was start of term, we had the start of term communion service and Christina talked on 1 John 2:20 "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth." Basically, we don't need teaching anymore - we know it all already! Serious though - she said she wants us to invite the Holy Spirit to be our first and foremost teacher this year, and see the lecturers more like 'helpers'. Great talk! The worship was good, too. Even though we *did* use the Book of Common Prayer (I guess it's an Anglican college after all...).
So tomorrow lectures begin with four hours (!) of "Church and Ministry". I just read a chapter of a book called Models of Church. Totally incomprehensible. I had to use a dictionary to look up certain words which I had never come across before. And before you ask, that has *never, ever* happened to me before!!!!! Not even when I was studying Business at Aston.
