i have had mixed experiences with new years eves and days - more often they have involved me running around trying to organise events and keep everyone else organised or entertained or worshipping or something like that and generally the ones where i have managed to avoid planning/organising/running anything have been the good ones [altho i do have great memories of some of the others don't get me wrong] and last year's hike to cape [...]
so this last saturday TheatreSports turned 17 – that’s right, cape town’s longest running show and too-often best kept secret has been running for 17 years, and i have been around for ten of them... we celebrated with a halloween themed birthday show in the little theatre opposite the intimate theatre where we perform every monday night at 8.30 (you should come!) – it was a bumper show with no less than 12 of our [...]
i read this t-shirt once that said "forget love, i want to fall in chocolate" - now while i disagree completely, because love is a pretty amazing thing, i do still like the idea of the possibility of one day falling into chocolate... mmmm cho-co-late [in best homer simpson impressioned voice] but until that happens, i thort it was time to share my secrets with the world - i like chocolate on occasion... or occasions... [...]
this week the third lausanne congress for world evangelication is happening in cape town - 4200 delegates from around the world representing church leaders, academics, theologians, marketplace people as well as men, women as well as old, young - convening for a week to discuss relevant issues facing the church - things like globalisation, pluralism, multi-faith society, relevance, integrity, response to poverty, trafficking etc etc - it is an incredible time and i am so [...]
one of the ways we amused ourselves on the orange river trip i just came back from was by playing this game that andrew vaughan had made up with i think it was andrew kerr a while ago - it was the game of 'how's business?' and it goes a little something like this: brett: i've recently started a new business andrew: what business is it? brett: we make wind-producing machines out of rice andrew: [...]
so we made it home from the ambassador's youth orange trip yesterday... made it home? sounds like survival talk there? oh wait, it is... the trip for me included a near death experience - or one that felt like it anyway - for me and so i am really glad to be back, and with my the beautiful Val again... all in all it was an incredible trip - a lot of effort needed at [...]
so we made it home from the ambassador's youth orange trip yesterday... made it home? sounds like survival talk there? oh wait, it is... the trip for me included a near death experience - or one that felt like it anyway - for me and so i am really glad to be back, and with my the beautiful Val again... all in all it was an incredible trip - a lot of effort needed at [...]
so tomorrow i join with andrew of vaughan once more (as i did two years ago) and a bunch of youngsters from Christchurch, Kenilworth, to head up to and then down the river of orange (yes, it's my new thing, deal with it!) and i am very much looking forward to it... originally we were hoping that the beautiful val would be able to be there but sadly thesising and her old housemate's wedding will [...]