A Battle of Death...............

Quick question......................who has apple and who has microsoft??
i been really fighting the desire to change to an iBook g4 in recent weeks with money being the slight disadvantage. They have become so cheap recently that i reckon i made a mistake last year when i bought this bundle of sh#t!! mmmmm i shall save my pennies and wait for the right moment!!

Its a Battle of Death between the sexy sleek apple and the virus infected pop up queen that is microsoft!

vs

Brains to burn............................

A Catholic school in Ballymena has been attacked with petrol bombs.
Five devices were thrown at the library and canteen at Saint Mary's School in the Harryville area of the town.
Windows were smashed and damage estimated at £1,000 was caused. The incident took place between 1500 BST on Monday and 0900 BST on Tuesday. A police statement said that a sectarian motive for the attack was a key line of inquiry being investigated by officers. Sinn Fein assembly member Philip McGuigan has blamed loyalist paramilitaries for the attack. "Catholic homes, churches and businesses have all been targeted in recent months as unionist paramilitaries intensify their violent campaign in north Antrim," he said.



Is it not a bold statement from "loyalist paramilitries" when they attack a school? a school inhabited by...........oh guess what? children!! and the children have what exactly to do with your cause? you see i dont think i would really be bothered if you attacked a known republican terrorist but i can see you all sitting around in a room thinking "ok lads what would really make a statement about our stand against republicans and the IRA?" and then the group genius pipes up "lets wreck a catholic school" or "lets throw some paint at the chapel"
these genius minds should be working at NASA or in the FBI instead of fighting the marvelous cause of protestantism in N.Ireland.

The Hurricane................

I cannot really avoid posting about this, its just everywhere you turn right now. Really really scary for those who have seen the hurricane or may yet encounter it...........................God be with you all
read the bbc latest.....

Wherever we may roam..................

We had a super day today, went to Belfast then cruised around to Carrickfergus for dinner and a walk before going up around the coast road to Whitehead, Larne and finally Glenarm before hitting the track home.
Here are some random images from our day out ..............................





a wonderful time was had by all 2 of us!

Ben Folds..............................

currently diggin Ben Folds new album



check it out "songs for silverman"
a line from one song kind of made me think about how God must feel about us sometimes.......(i say that reverently of course)

"it seems that if you cant trust
you cant be trusted"

my studies........................

i dont recall ever explaining this properly and i dont want to bore anyone so i will keep it short.................................

I am in my 3rd year of studies for a Ba Hons degree in Humanities and am currently looking at 1960's mainstream culture and counter-culture. For a look at an overview of the degree nip across to the open uni site for a bit of a look!
The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. Most OU courses are available throughout Europe. Some of them are available in many other parts of the world. More than 25,000 OU students live outside the UK. The challenge has been awesome for the most part and sometimes very stressful but i thoroughly enjoyed getting my brain back into gear. Its weird but i could not wait to leave education and by the time i was 25 i couldnt wait to get back in.....haha!
I am still not sure of what i will do when i finish studying, i really had no concrete plan but we shall see what happens...........................i still want to write a book and maybe teach ............??
Next year i am focusing on creative writing so that should be fun and if nothing else my blog will benefit!!
anyway, its all good and hey i might post an assignment on the blog sometime. yawn!!!

atiG.......................

I was just thinking about atiG this evening and how we are in the middle of a very quiet period with activity at a bit of a standstill.......this is the nature of things because we are in a small country that suffers from a lack of forward thinking, especially in "christian" music circles. We have worked with some fantastic artists including Fernando Ortega and the awesome Downhere who we hope and pray will visit Ireland again someday. It has been a wonderful blessing to have met some of the most lovely people in doing what we do..............maybe someday we could do this as a full time job!
It has had its ups and downs and support and opposition but we are still upright.............
anyway, take a wee walk by the atiG site if you have not been before and if you have.............well not much new is happening there just now but watch this space...........................we shall return with more great concerts in the near future.

im off now to kill some spyware and chuffing cheeky pop ups.................little gits!!

check this out.....

talented local artist and wife of Mr Foy Vance is now over at www.joannevance.com so step in and check out her work. she also sings backing vocals for the man and i have to be honest is an all round talented girl.........



Joanne was in my brother philip's class at school and iv been a bit scared to mention this but what the heck............i danced with her at a school disco when i was like............12 and she was 16. to be honest im quite proud of that so...............................there!! she was and still is a bit of fox so.....................mm yea "shutup ally." i have never danced since!
ah.....................im off next week so counting down the minutes until 4pm tomorrow....................yipeeee
cherith and i are going out tonight to visit our friends mike and tracy who just moved into a new house, well mike did but it may as well be "their" house...................great people who are real friends so must "shoot the crow" and get organised but first................................
what makes a friend? the above painting by joanne is called "vows and values" so what are the values of a friend??
is it someone you just hang with?
can you totally trust them?
can they trust you?
tell me what you think...............................

almost but not quite...................

ok first things first folks, supersimbo is not about numbers or "hits" and its is certainly not some sort of agenda for me to be popular or famous or................... whatever. BUT.........and its a big but, today i almost had 100 visitors, which may not seem too many for some blogs but il be honest iv been pretty chuffed to see it steadily rising in recent weeks and hey, long may it continue. So.............................mmmm yea thats it for now.......yawn!!
keep up the good visiting........

Foy............again....

My foy cd arrived today................................yikes its good!
the bonus footage is really imaginative and creative and typical to be honest of the guy.........class! He walks into a venue, takes his guitar out and plays a track in the toilet cubicle and then we see what has been happening............................the crowd has just witnessed on a big screen and is waiting as he walks out of the toilet and onstage to go into track 2................................really cool but its the birth of the toilet tour and foy is off and running......................................

iv started something.....................

Earlier this evening i posted about Queen and now i have started something that i must continue so every once in a while i shall go into "classic band" territory and applaud a great band or singer that is making me yelp............perhaps it will be a classic track or....hang on, i do this anyway so i just wasted all those words saying this crap!!
I have had a few compliments on here with regard to my taste in music so here is a little glimpse of some of the tracks currently on my iTunes...........................yes its a list!!

all american alien boy: ian hunter
summer moved on: aHa
heroes & villains: the beach boys
take my hand: ben harper & the blind boys of alabama
armageddon it: def leppard
REM blues: duke ellington
best of you: foo fighters
the dry cleaner from des moines: joni mitchell
so what: miles davis
wish you were here: pink floyd
fat bottomed girls: queen
bones: radiohead
yahweh: u2
last night on earth: u2
white flag: shaun groves

Just a taste of the 614 songs on my mini iPod......................................

and now.......................

Debreceni v Manchester United
Champions League 19:30

9.30 Update

Result

Debreceni 0 Manchester united 3

Queen..........................

just came in from work and was browsing through my emails etc when i decided to put on some queen so i fired up iTunes and bang..................................i have not listened to queen for ages and boy they rock like a huge bolder in the rocky's! what is it about may's guitar, freddie's voice or the lethal combination of john deacons bass and roger taylor's drums that makes me jump up and think "YESSSSSSSSS! this is music"
I wouldnt even say im a fan because i do not have many of their albums but i dont think iv ever heard a bad queen song.........................
Sure, they could be a little absurd at times................well freddie was, but sure who isn't??



So any favourite songs folks??
a few of my faves are:
another one bites the dust
fat bottomed girls
somebody to love
tie your mother down
i want it all

Legends.............total legends.

faking it................

we have all done it! faked illness, pulled a sickie etc etc! when i was a teenager i actually got a bit of an addiction for it to be quite honest. i would always start by skipping dinner the night before and then go to bed complaining of slight stomach cramps, then i would get up through the night and roam about making some noise so my folks knew i was up and then "what are you doing wandering about at this hour of the night?" and i would reply "i feel like i might throw up"...............................hook, line and sinker every time!!
i have went further than that though!
i actually remember once or twice faking a cold to get out of church by sticking my finger really far up my nose and making it bleed or by spraying an aerosol near my nose and sneezing loads................ah how strange i was. Instead of just saying "i aint going, its crap" i inflicted this nonsense on myself!!
i reckon the prize for legendary sickie has to go to Ferris Bueller who is just a legend.................mmm i mean that film about him is legendary. i know he is not real!! dammit!



hands up if you love this film?? proof that life at 17 can be a joy...................phhtt!

My "iPod" will deafen me....................

Oh come on this same old tale of woe has been going around since Sony introduced the "Walkman" in...................i dunno 1945!!! Those earphones will make you deaf !!
The news says..................
"Owners of iPods face increased risks of tinnitus and other hearing problems according to Australian researchers.One quarter of iPod users and other portable music players are damaging their ears by blasting tunes into them. Sydney's National Acoustic Laboratories found around 25% of those surveyed were listening to their players at volumes similar to small power tools. The team predicted increased levels of tinnitus because people were unable to adopt "responsible" listening habits." ....... story from Sky News



Yea...........i know but music sounds better when its loud and i hate it when Eric is about to burst into a legendary solo an it gets ruined by someone speaking to me or Oscar is in the middle of a mind blowing solo when i hear the doorbell....................gah! it has to be loud!!!

Monday 22nd Aug 2005.......................

This is my 4th post today and 251st since supersimbo was born...............no more words today just pictures of us messing about tonight....................



May the next 250 posts be as much fun as the last...................Rock on!!

Live Sessions and the Birth of the Toilet Tour..

Released today.....................Foy Vance:Live Sessions and the Birth of the Toilet Tour



Order your copy through the above link....................you will not regret it

hip hip hurray..............

Missing jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux has been "found" after her record label hired a private detective to trace her. Bill Holland of Universal Classics and Jazz said they had "tracked her down very quickly. Much to our embarrassment she was with her manager in New York."
oooops....................though maybe they had good reason to panic?



Peyroux has a history of erratic behaviour, spending seven years busking in Paris after the release of her debut album, Dreamland, in 1996. "She's fine, she's resting and she's preparing for her September tour," her management have announced.

some "lighter" local news
Dissident republicans have threatened retaliatory attacks against loyalist paramilitaries responsible for a campaign of intimidation against Catholics in Co Antrim, it was claimed today.
In a statement to a local newspaper, the Real IRA warned loyalists that unless the sustained terror attacks are brought to an end, action will be taken.
And i thought we were living in peace?? I have a theory on why ahoghill is now such a center of hatred but i will share it later..................................

My Fenders.............................

I have not mentioned my guitars for a day or two.............quite a while actually, but i am going to re-string my fret-less jazz bass in a little while so i was just considering how much i love these two little gems.
My fender Jazz standard and Fret-less are simply fantastic friends of mine.



Some of these days i will be playing like Jaco.......................phhhh!
Anyway, going to re-string now so i may pop back later with some interesting blogging!!!

Long Way Round...............

We watched the whole series of Long Way Round on dvd today.......................about 6 hours!! haha
It was fantastic entertainment watching these two normal guys who are passionate about bikes just set off across the world and rough it, risking their lives along the way and meeting wonderful and interesting people as they travelled. One of those guys just happened to be Ewan McGregor....................if you have not seen this series i strongly recommend it whether you are into bikes or travel or neither.



Setting off in London in April 2004, Ewan and Charley travelled through some of the most beautiful, and at times dangerous, terrain the world has to offer. Crossing over into mainland Europe, they rode through France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada before arriving 115 days later at their final destination, New York City, USA.



It was a gruelling six hours of viewing but we were addicted once it started..............great stuff!
Now i must read the book and buy the soundtrack!!!!
For more detailed info on this amazing adventure visit the website...........................

The X Factor............

I should have posted this last night but have a stinking head cold and the snotters were tripping me so i just went to bed!! Sorry for the graphic details.......haha
Anyway, X factor 2005 begun last night and i have never been a huge fan of this dodgy T.v but i do like watching the opening stages of the show when there are just so many auditions and there are also so many really bad singers and dancers who somehow think they have what it takes. Last night however, i was a litle saddened by what i watched because their were at least 4 different hopefuls who were just so so sure they were talented and you could see the desperation on their faces but they sucked.............the problem is that they pinned so much on the acceptance of Simon, Louis and Sharon that their devastation at rejection was slightly disturbing to watch.
This one guy who appeared was quite obviously a little "simple" and the t.v producers have made him look like a freak because he had this self belief but no talent...................and then this bloke in his 50's appeared saying he had summoned up John Lennons voice to duet with him. The guy was "barking mad" but the production team of the show made good t.v by exploiting the obvious mental problem that this guy has..................made me a bit angry to be honest.
Exploiting ordinary people to make good tv sucks big time..................what is that all about??

Hunter s Thompson..................

The ashes of gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson have been blown into the sky from a cannon in Aspen, Colorado. Friends and admirers had gathered for the event at the writer's US home, six months after he shot himself there. His ashes were fired from a 150ft tower topped by a red fist with two thumbs - the symbol of Thompson's free-wheeling, first-person gonzo journalism. Johnny Depp, who played Thompson in the film of his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, paid for the cannon.



Friends were instructed to remember him afterwards with the clink of ice in whiskey.
The cult author committed suicide at his home in February. Thompson, who was 67, had said on several occasions that he would like his ashes to be fired from a cannon after his death.
The event was private............................damn! i wanted to go!!

gah........................

Just completed our first friday night function of this new term of work!! A local "elim" church was having a meal for their newly appointed pastor and they chose us as the "lucky" restaurant...............woohoo! Functions are a doddle, quick and painless with no pressure. Its been weird to do an evening, its been so long since we last did one but anyway i will endeavour to adapt quickly as sill season is nearly upon us once more!
Anyhooo, its been a stressful week, i really want so deperately to just change scenery at the weekend, go somewehere and switch off. Its sad when work and the surrounding drama of it gets to you in that way. There is a lot going on right now and God has led me to question a lot of things.............Rob bell has also done that in his book velvet elvis which i am not officially reading yet!! These are exciting times for me but its tough when i reach the weekend, i want to sleep for a lot of it and its tough for cherith to handle how i can be when i switch off from work. She sticks my mood swings, my irritable nature, my ramblings about music or whatever im reading and my constant need to change my mind about things whilst forgetting what it was i changed my mind from!! gah!!!!grrrr!!!
Someone once told me i was a typical artistic person who is wired differently from the rest of us............???? i dunno but i sometimes wonder what is going on in my head.......i wish i was just an artist.......not a "typical" one.
So i really just started to type this post and these words came out so i will stop now...............random it was and random it shall end.

Two Goldfish in a tank! one says to the other....."How do you drive this bloody thing?"

all is good........................

so, went to the doc! The mole is nothing serious, its a blah blah blah something or other that should go away with cream (not fresh cream) and hey if it does'nt then "doc j" will cut it out in a flash!!! So im feelin a little more at ease this afternoon.....................exciting things are up ahead for me this coming week, stay tuned!!!!!!
I was just reading about how Jazz Singer Madeleine Peyroux has apparently disappeared and according to her record company is proving very difficult to track down! They have hired a private detective to track her down!! weird....................i have recently been really into her latest album and apparently she has done this before.....................strange!!



come back madeleine!!

Double Trouble.................

Stevie Ray Vaughn..................when i hear the name i have to smile!
In my "still watching" section i have placed the classic "live at the el mocambo" dvd which to be honest is high up on my list of favourite live performances by anyone................the energy of his playing is amazing and leaves you tired after just watching. His technique, presence and sheer ability never fails to amaze me.
The fact that so many other legendary guitarists regard him as they do speaks volumes.............

"Stevie had many ways of showing you that he had not only talent, but he also had a feeling for playing the blues. He was good with it, his execution and his hands. He seemed to be flawless, the way he moved with it." B.B. King

"I remember being fascinated by the fact that he never, ever seemed to be lost in any way. I mean, it wasn't ever that he took a breather or paused to think where he was going to go next. It just flowed out of him. "
Eric Clapton

"One of the greatest blues musicians who ever picked up a guitar." John Lee Hooker


Stevie Ray Vaughan: October 3, 1954 - August 27, 1990

His music made me smile today when i was in a bit of a mood!!

Thursday.........................

This will be a short post folks. I have an appointment with my doctor in the morning to get a mole checked and im a little worried but hey thats just me. Its on my leg and has been itching for a few days so i must do what i must do.......................
back soon...

The church marketed..........................

You may have noticed in my side bar that i popped in a link for a site called Church Marketing Sucks ?
mmm what could this mean? Its basically a great website and resource for info about how churches market themselves, the do's and dont's if you will! Its a funny subject for me but i do agree that we should do our best to reach people for God and it does no harm to be told if your church website sucks etc.................i mean lets face it we are all a bunch of no-good losers, including me so criticism rocks!!yay!!
Anyway it can go from one extreme to another.......................here are 3 wacky examples to give you a chuckle!
1
A Tampa Bay church is giving away a 2003 H2 Hummer. People had a chance to register during 2004 at The River at Tampa Bay Church and those eligible included first-time visitors, members who brought first-time visitors, Bible students, and those who filled out a survey. Other prizes included a scooter and a Play Station, all to be awarded during the church’s Winter Campmeeting which runs this week.
2
The Beatles can step aside thanks to the 62-foot, $250,000 Jesus statue erected by the Solid Rock Church of Monroe, Ohio. The sculpture towers over the church and nearby interstate 75, serving as a “beacon of hope and salvation.”
3 (my favourite)
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. offers its own custom brewed beer, Winged Lion Lager, for its weekly pub lunches—and the twenty- and thirty-somethings are coming out in droves.

One of the best things i disovered on the site was The Cartoon Church and it served as a reminder that sometimes christians take themselves too seriously. Now notice the difference between taking ourselves too seriously and taking God too seriously...........................oh....i reckon i am guilty of that. you?? I dont reckon we take God seriously enough and as a result people see me and NOT God. After all, as Kat reminded me in her latest post we do try to hard and as a result miss the point. The examples above are trying a bit too hard dont you think? Lets be more honest..................il try if you do

thank goodness.................

A Presbyterian minister has appealed directly to those behind the latest sectarian attack in a County Antrim village to "stop this evil". Reverend Eddie Kirk said the actions of those behind a paint attack on a Catholic home were "utterly revolting". The Ahoghill couple said they feared for their lives after the attack and were leaving their home of eight years.
"On behalf of the vast majority of the people in Ahoghill, not just the Presbyterians, we find your actions utterly revolting and we call on you to stop doing this evil" Reverend Eddie Kirk

Im glad that this minister from the village has spoken out and said what most people were thinking. Im afraid that for reasons i cannot explain i will only be posting about the incidents and no longer voicing my personal opinions. I hope this does not damage the quality of my blog content......................

On a lighter note, todays Belfast telegraph has reported that a notorious British-based Islamic extremist has said Ireland is a "legitimate" target for al-Qa'ida terror attacks. read on..........

i wonder would that unite the protestants and catholics??

across a crowded room.........................

I hate crowded rooms...............the noise, the heat, the crowd!!! arrrggghhhh
When i was a teenager i had severe problems with claustrophobia and though i have beaten it into submission for the most part it occassionally rears it ugly head.
The room fills up, i check to see where my nearest exit is, my palms start to sweat and i get irritable. Then, "dammit" someone starts to talk to me. I cant concentrate on what they are saying because it takes all my efforts to not pass out and wallop them as i pound into the floor. I start to feel like i could vomit at any moment, my breathing gets faster, the sweating is now all over and not just my palms. Man this is Nuts!!!
As i race to the door or toilet or wherever, everything is a blur but i know il be ok in a few seconds and......................yea i am! fresh air does it, or the bright fluorescent lights of a toilet.......................some cold water and im good!!!



I did this with incredible consistence as a teenager, it had the potential to ruin my early adult life but i am pleased to say that i am on top of it now. But, sometimes i have a slight "moment" and i have to take some deep breaths but it no longer controls me............................... i'v got used to the blur!!!!haha

more attacks..........................

A couple are to leave their County Antrim home after an overnight attack.
Bottles filled with paint were thrown at the house in Tudor Vale in Ahoghill, at 2330 BST on Monday.
Police have said they are treating the attack on the Catholic couple as sectarian. A primary school and Catholic church were also targeted. Pat McGaughey, who has lived there for eight years, said they feared for their lives. "We are not willing to take a chance on our safety," she said. "We are going to move, we are going to leave, we'll have to sell our house and go.


I arrived in ahoghill at about 9am this morning, left my bag in work and went to the shop for a paper and i may have passed one of these criminals or stood beside them in the shop......................one of them may even have been into the restaurant for lunch today. Good christian people are supporting this by not speaking against these incidents.............my platform is sadly only my blog but why do we stand by and watch?
ahhhhh i am so frustrated right now.........

Test Everything................

I just got Rob Bell's book Velvet Elvis this morning. I am still reading a couple of books right now so i kind of had a flick throught the first chapter and then set it aside until i am finished with my others.
On the back of the book though, its says "we have to test everything." He then thanks God for "anyone, anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of God but those people would all tell you to think long and hard about what they are saying and doing and creating"
I want to ask would they? Or would some of those people just expect you to take their word for it? from my own experience that is exactly what often happens. Maybe this is just a cultural issue in this country but it is a big concern for me right now.
"test it, probe it?" ...................... NO way, you are not allowed to! I am in the middle of this right now............the "if you are not for me you are against me" mentality that is sooo wrong and so discouraging to the person who just wants to validate something in their own head with a question.
Rob asks right from the outset that we do this with his book.................."think about it, wrestle with it"
Why can "leadership" not be like this? If we genuinely love our people then we will understand when they have a question or concern or even when they disagree with us, Right?

and finally what does Rob say........................this has been stinging me all day long because it reminds me that even when i think i am right that i need to hold it up to the light and see what God says..........

"God has spoken, and the rest is commentary right?"

Rob Bell. Velvet Elvis

Spurgeon...................

I just added Spurgeon to my "spiritual" links a couple of days ago and lo and behold didnt Shaun Groves post an awesome piece of Spurgeons writings on his blog..........................This burns right now, it eats me to think i am stuck in a situation where these words are so vital and important.........

"I believe that, at this present time, we are in great danger of being burdened with a crowd of so-called converts who do not really know anything as it ought to be known. They attended a revival meeting, were much excited, and thought they were converted; but just ask them to explain to you the simplest truths of the gospel, and you will soon discover how little they know. Could they explain the three R's, ruin, redemption, and regeneration Do they know what the ruin is? Do they know what the remedy for that ruin is? Do they understand at all what it means to be born again? Do they comprehend what the new nature is, or what "justification by faith" means. Perhaps someone says, "They do not comprehend your theological terms." I do not mind whether they know the meaning of the terms that are familiar to many of us; but do they know the truths themselves? There is a certain degree of Christian knowledge which is absolutely necessary to salvation."
Charles H. Spurgeon

Thanks to shaun for posting this...................i literally felt a shiver up my spine as i read this.

Bono and the lads..............

U2 have been awarded Portugal's highest honour for their humanitarian work.
President Jorge Sampaio bestowed the Order of Liberty honour on the group hours before they went on stage for a concert in Lisbon on Sunday. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr all attended the investiture ceremony at the presidential palace.

"It is of course for the four of us a great, great honour," said Bono.
After receiving the honour, the U2 frontman urged the Portuguese to help Africa, saying it was unacceptable for children to go hungry and for 3,000 a day to die from malaria.
"If we really believed that an African life was equal to a European life we would not stand by with watering cans while an entire continent was bursting into flames," he said.

This quote is another amazing one from Bono...........think about how it applies to you where you are.
For me its says, "if i really believe that a catholic life is equal to a protestant life then i would not stand by and ignore this vandalism on their place of worship"

I think i will lay off the local politics for a day or two.................

More on Church attacks................

This evening i was rooting around on the net and discovered a differing opinion from mine on the recent acts of kindness performed by my church in response to the harryville chapel attacks. I really am just posting it to highlight the sort of weird twisted minds that are roaming our land........... these comments were left anonymously on a "political" website and to be honest i dont know whether to laugh at them or be angry........madness!!

"Its a shame that the gallant members of the big hearted broad minded all-things-to-all-men liberal ecumenical High Kirk Presbyterian Church in Ballymena didn't offer to go and wipe the paint off Dunloy Orange Hall when it was attacked by their catholic friends they're so fond of helping.
It is also a shame that this great tolerant High Kirk Presbyterian Church which is apparently interested reaching out to everyone and anyone regardless of who they are cannot find it within their kind tolerant hearts to allow the local Ballymena Orange District Lodge to carry their Ulster Flag and district bannerette into the church for a divine service. The traitors of High Kirk Presbyterian Church really make me sick. If it wasn't for the freedom provided by those loyalist flags they despise so much flying over this country, their stinking church wouldn't even exist."

Ha this is harsh and all i can say is whoever worte these word needs to trust Jesus and if they are already under the impression they have then they need to have a sit down with the Bible and thrash out some of their issues with God...............................oh by the way i was in church earlier and it smelt ok for somewhere you just described as "stinking"

Huh??????

Ok so i like to be comfortable in a restaurant but this is just nuts!

Yes your eyes do not decieve you..............the seats are toilets and the tables are baths with a glass top set on!! You will be glad to know that the bathroom fixtures are not operational............
This is somehwere in japan, dont you just love the japanese?? original to the end!!

The things you see....................

Today as Cherith browsed through some clothes i spotted something through a window................and here it is! A car with live football being screened from a tv in the boot/trunk...........ahhh so i spotted a "gap" in the crowd and watched the last five minutes of the game..................united beat everton 3-nil! yay



Sometimes i just love watching people, ive confessed this before but i dont mean in a freaky voyeur kind of way. Anyway i watched this wonderful sales team in action today as they tried to sell beauty products to people, the way they approached people convincing them that they needed a manicure or facial scrub etc etc was fantastic. The trick seemed to be keeping eye contact and complimenting the passers by endlessly..........it was fun to watch! I was, however a little annoyed that in the course of a day these nice folks will be ignored or insulted by hundreds of people. The truth is that so many folks are in the streets and shopping malls trying to sell "their" product or "their" idea and so often we walk past with no time to even say "sorry im not interested." I watched today as people came and went from shops, ascended and descended on escalators on a mission for something to make their day and quite often completely oblivious to people around them.....
So if these people were just selling some beauty products and doing it so well and like their life depended on it (it probably does) then why could i not stand up in public and proclaim "my Jesus" or stop one of these people and tell them about something far more important than the product they were selling?? some thinking to do......



So we came home, had dinner, i watched tv and cherith read her new dan brown book, angels & demons!

Today........................

First and Foremost.......


Everton v Manchester United, KO 12.45

Think we are going shopping today as i am off work so as i have also no money that will be a non-event!! ah well, its just nice to be off and hanging out with cherith.........

Over on rhett's blog he mentioned in a post about us "playing holy spirit"
This has really got me thinking about some stuff and how sometimes we do try to guide people too much and over-influence when we should be stepping back. I have a lot more to say on this subject but will gather my thoughts first and get back to you.
any thoughts??

EVENING UPDATE: UNITED 3 EVERTON 0.......nice one lads..............

And the winner is..................

Big Brother 2005.....................
Anthony..........................

Anthony has been crowned the winner of Big Brother 2005 with 57.3 per cent of the public vote, which leaves Eugene in second place! After an excruciatingly long wait, delightful Davina broke the news to the trembling pair. A giddy Anthony could barely believe the overwhelming news. "Oh my God! Granny Hutton, I've done it!" he screamed, running around the living room. So near but yet so far, Eugene congratulated Anthony, the public's favourite, on his glorious victory and prepared to be released back into the wild.
What a completely savage lot we endured this year....................drunken louts with nothing to offer..........................excpet Derek!!

a few changes.............

Just been making a few changes to the blog this afternoon......more links etc
But now......without further ado................................supersimbo proudly presents:
The Ballymena Ecos center
Do not be fooled by the website folks, this is a grade A waste of space and .......oh sorry i forgot to say that a lot of the links on the site dont work..........see what i mean!!! Its also a well known fact that nothing at the place works and nobody ever ever visits it.....................ever!!!


£10 million, it cost 10 million to build this heap........................arrrggggh

How many more times...................

I didnt know this was happening today until i saw the news on tv at lunch time but, this morning members from several "protestant" churchs in the area set about cleaning up the most recent attack on the catholic church in harryville, ballymena!

Pastor Jeremy Gardiner, from High Kirk Presbyterian Church in Ballymena, led groups from his congregation to clean a previous graffiti attack on the church. "For me, the story of the Good Samaritan really comes to mind - helping other people who are in need and reaching out to our neighbours. "That is exactly what we are doing; we are reaching out to our neighbours. At this point in time they happen to be Catholic neighbours, if it was Protestant neighbours, we would do the same."
As well as having support from the Presbyterian church, Fr Symonds said they received messages of support from many churches including the Church of Ireland, Methodist Church and the Victory Praise Centre.

To show support for Jeremy's initiative and the continuing struggle against reli