The Queen

Happy 80th Birthday to her majesty! I have come to realise that I have heard quite a few funny stories about our monarch over the years so will now share a few with you.

1. Millennium Stadium
The scene was set for a great opening game at the newly finished Millennium Stadium. The building work was finished and they had even had time to clean all the seats with a power water spray thingy. The queen has a very special seat in the Millennium Stadium at it is big and padded with lots of foam. So the queen arrives for the game and goes into the Royal box, she stands in front of her nice clean seat and after the national anthem or whatever she sits....
squelch a load of water comes out of her seat as the foam has soaked up the power water spray! Now what do the others in the box with similar seats do as you are meant to follow what the queen does but now you know it will lead to squelchidge!

2. Horse Carriage
It was yet another important visit of an important person to see the queen. At one point they are both in an open carriage being pulled by horses. The horses being horses and not realising who they are pulling do not make any attempt at politeness and are often heard 'bottom burping' the queen feeling embarassed for her guest leans forward and says "I'm sorry for the horrible noise" her guest then replies "that's quite alright Marm I actually thought it was the horses!". Unfortunately I do not know what happened next.

3. Finger Bowl
The queen is apparently very good at putting her guests at ease. This has been illustrated at one of the many banquets she holds. One course required a finger bowl. However, one of the important guests had obviously not seen one of these before and so promptly drank it! Now you can imagine the potential embarrassment that this course of action may evoke. However, the queen excellent hostess as she is eased her guest's embarrassment by picking up her bowl and drinking it too. How lovely.

A Strange New World

I have come to the conclusion that I have woken up in some sort of alternate Herne Hill this morning. The reasons behind this are as follows:

1. I woke up a 7:55am - now its a holiday day so this is just wrong

2. I checked my phone to see that I had received 3 new messages - a new overnight record! Luckily I had remembered to put my phone onto silent last night unlike the night before so was not rudely awakened by them arriving, unlike the night before!

3. One of the said messages appeared to call me Dave - now I realise Vickrum is actually a boy's name but I think calling me Dave is going a bit far. This strange phenomenon is however, cleared up on checking next message to find that the previous was actually meant for Dave - phew!

4. I have to take my Dad to school! - Now this to me seems a bit backwards!

It is now 9am so I will have to hope that the world corrects itself soon!

And now on to...

THE SAGA OF NEXT DOOR'S SOFA

Yesterday next door had a sofa delivered, unfortunatly no one was in hence...

Delivery man sitting down on the job (sorry forgot to rotate picture). This led to the sofas being left along their garden path. Next a strange man appears, but he doesn't have the key either so he is forced to wait outside with the sofas. On our way out for the evening we see strange man and the sofa trying to go through the door (I assume there was someone else the other side), as we walk past there is a very loud crash and the sound of broken glass - the door is smashed. On our return we see a boarded up door and two sofas (minus cushions) outside! I awoke this morning to see just the boarded up door. So either the sofas were stolen over night (which is quite likely) or they eventually managed to get them inside. We may never know the true ending of the saga of next door's sofa!

Word Alive

Woohoo! I think that's the best word to sum up the week! My only question is why did I not go for the previous 2 years? The teaching was really good. I went to the chronological bible overview which was really good, I have seen a whole new side to the story of David and Goliath. The evening meetings were fabtastic. My favourite illustration being the man who woke up on the morning after his wedding and not knowing who his wife was! Anyway here's some of my favourite pics I have 113 in total so it was a tough choice, if you want to see more/have some let me know. I have also heard talk of a website photo album thingy being set up so watch this space.
Argh the photo uploading isn't working so you will have to wait.

So summary of the week:

Favourite Evening meeting talk: Vaughan Robberts - Authentic Christ
Most Overplayed Song: Indescribeable
Most heroic moment: Bov rescuing a girl in the swimming pool
Best Lunch spot: on the beach
Most concerning moments: Simon and Matt having their hair straightened
Best driving moment: Moving the minibus foreward! (sshh don't tell the union)
Worst Driving moment: Aqua-plaining during an emergency stop in Brixton
Best toy played with: Marble run at Beckrum's house - though strangely complicated!
Most "uni hall is the best" prooving moment: Winning the Lazer Quest
Most shocking discovery about a person: Sarah Holland turns violent in a swimming pool!
Person who belched the most: Simon
Person most obsessed with luggage trolleys: Beckrum
Fears conquered: 2 (the dodgems, and the miami wave ride)
Worst seminar: sociology subject matters
Best Seminar: Delighting in God's Word
Guitar cords learnt: 3 - A, G and C or was it D?
Most disconcerting moment: Max the hamster watching me on the loo
Funniest old people: the couple that were 'joyriding' on an electric scooter, chair thingy (nearly running us over)