I have been after this clip for ages since seeing a snipet on the telly, and a mate sent it via facebook.
Three Way movie
Torn
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Category Archives: Life
Post Christendom
Life is mad at the moment so little time to think or blog, off to the launch of youth work after christendom tomorrow in Brum then leamington spa, with south west travels next week. very much looking forward to holiday at the end of the monthState of Play movie Code Name: The Cleaner rip
Slug fest
86 so far – the number of slugs and snails removed from the veg patch over the past two nights. There was one slug so large when I saw it I thought it was a mouse – at about 5 inches long and two inches thick, it actually made me jump when I first saw it.
Is God a DJ?
The Garden grows
So far the potatoes look good, carrots (purple and orange), beetroot, parsnips, lettuce, spring onions, spinach and cucumber are all popping out the ground. We are hardening off the corguettes, squashes, peppers and tomatoes, and have wild strawberries scattered around. Now the issue is to try not and let the slugs near or lose the veggies. My issue is that i have been quite disciplined this year with weeding so far but the idea of slug hunting by torchlight or keeping weeding is not my idea of a good night out. As a weak completer/finisher in personality type I see this now as an area for personal growth as well as veggie growth, but even typing about it fills me with horror. i fear the challenge is beyond me, can we overcome my nature with a little nurture?
i want to fly
A course for community development workers and activists
Exploring the Impact of Travel / Transport on Communities Course code B2
A course for community development workers and activists
Monday 2nd June 10.30 am – 4.00 pm (Tea and arrivals from 10.00 am)
Venue: The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
The Federation for Community Development Learning are in partnership with TWICS as part of the Every Action Counts programme.
The Every Action Counts programme promotes collective actions and work within the voluntary and community sectors. Our overall programme aims to unlock learning, transferable knowledge and greater understanding of how to promote inclusive and accessible environmental actions for community groups and organisations.
This course is designed as an introduction to the impact of travel and transport on communities.
Aims:
· Introduce the principles an processes of community development as a way to challenge social exclusion and injustice
· Explore the themes of environmental and social justice as approaches and principles to travel and transport issues for communities.
Participants will have the opportunity to:
Identify the key themes and issues around transport affecting communities they are part of or are working with
Discuss the relevance of environmental and social justice approaches to taking action on travel themes with communities.
Identify opportunities for taking community action in response to themes raised during the course.
How to book a place
For more information and to reserve your place please download a form from our website at www.fcdl.org.uk or contact FCDL at admin@fcdl.org.uk or call us on 0114 253 6770 for a booking form and more information.
Being there costs fathers
I haven’t really talked much about the personal effects the current government system has on me and how it penalises people particularly fathers who try and be there for their children. I want share from my own perspective, – Tuffty and Clive are great kids and I want to be around them as much as possible, so they stay with us three nights a week, and at their mums four nights – it is the closest we can get to genuine shared care. So I am in an enviable position for many fathers who have restricted or no access. The issue here however is that although I have the children for almost 50% of the time, I cannot get access to working families tax credit, or share the family allowance and still pay maintenance. Based on our family income (which working for a charity is modest) if tuffty and Clive were registered at my house or stayed here for four nights instead of three we would qualify for working families tax credit of £256 a month and get family allowance on top another £120 a month.
Now I have no issues with fathers being expected to pay maintenance or that there some poor examples of men out there who try to duck their responsibilities, but I have already had to sell one house due to the child support agency fiasco – which does not truly recognise equality, and impinged such high maintenance costs on me and didn’t take into account that in order to see my children regularly I had to make long journeys to work. What was worse was that Tuffy and Clive didn’t receive any of this money as their mum was claiming benefit.
the 10 pence tax rate was not the only issue that government did not examine the detail on.
ABC Party tomorrow
Tomorrow we are having an ABC party. Alcohol – BBQ – Croquet. Following on from our wierd beard new years eve, hopefully the weather will hold.
Who Am I? trailer
Oasis gone bust
Our visiting lecturer couldn’t make it the other day as Oasis had gone bust. I was told briefly as my boss ran off to another meeting – astounded I couldn’t find anything on the web but just found this. No wonder I couldn’t find anything at the time – serves me right for putting two and two together and coming up with six and thankfully I got the wrong end of stick, although with many people affected, not good news.