Firsts

A week of firsts:-

• Katherine has a bed. She got it last saturday and has done well. She really enjoys the grown upness of it, and usually stays in bed, apart from halfa dozen potty runs before she goes to sleep.
• Sunday School new term. Julie and I are helping as class room assistants, week about, but we both went to the first day, and I was to bring Katehrine down for coffee in teh church, but when we took our eyes off her for a second she had joined a class. Charlottes class of pre-school and P1 had over 16 children. A huge Sunday School for the size of the congregation.
• Monday had Charlottes first day at school. She loves it! She woke up on that morning and ran around getting ready. She has really enjoyed it and we have tried to walk to or from school when we can.
• Tuesday was my first day back at the course. A lot of hard work this year with Ethics and CBT this term and Supervised practice starting after Christmas.
• Today I gave my first Police statement. We had our telephone wire pulled down from the outside of teh Cornerstone last week and we are hoping that the town CCTV picked up the perp. It was shear vandelism and we don't want to let the person(s) away with it if we can.

There you go.

Embrace change

I think this is something we should all think about.
www.embracechange.org

Even more MP3

Haven't blogged in a long time mainly due to laziness, so I will jump right in with my MP3 listening.
I am still listening to escapepod and that has brought me to Podcastle and Clonepod, both of which dish out a weekly short story. The best storeys to come out of these are the Union Dues storeys.
I have also been listening to podcast books. Christina Ellis podcast two of her books, the fantasy Nina Kimberly the Merciless, and the sci-fi Space Casey. These are funny and light, and i enjoyed them both, but Space Casey had better pace. For a full on adult (as in violence and language) story i spent the best part of a month listening to J C Hutchins read his thriller trilogy 7th Son. Brilliant writing that kept me on the edge of my driving seat. One part I even slowed down in the car so i wouldn't get home before the scene was over.
For more intellectual stimulus I have Podquiz, a weekly 20 question quiz. If i get 10 out of 20 I am doing well. Karl Kruszelnicki is a bit of a smarty pants and I tend to get my pop science from three of his podcast. BBC Science with Dr Karl, Science on Mornings on triple j and Great Moments in Science. In the first two of theses he takes live questions from Joe public. I find him both entertaining and informative. And the automotive wizards at Car Talk. An American podcast that has Tom and Ray diagnose car trouble for callers, who usually have to make the relevant noises. It is a lot of fun and can get annoying if you listen to too many at one time. Not sure how much I am learning about car maintenance.
For comedy i did listen to BBC Ulsters Funny Stuff, but it became dull rather quickly and the only bright spot was the bits from Gerry Anderson, so i now listen to his best bits instead. And the BBC Friday night comedy is good fro a laugh. I did find a gem of a site with great MP3 down loads. Internet archive:audio archive has a huge selection of old radio shows. What makes this site different is that it contains classic BBC radio comedies such as I'm sorry i haven't a clue. It is well worth roaming the site for other shows. Enjoy!
I love the fact that all this is free, given to us by companies, individuals and nutters, it makes my journeys from work more relaxing after young people are skiving school, drinking with guys in their 40's and tearing out our phone wires from the outside of the building (it was a BAD day).