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Most of yesterday was spent cooking and playing basketball. First I did food for Acorns (carer & tot group), then played basketball with the kids at Meadowbank primary at lunchtime. This was the first lunchtime I’ve done there since shortly after Matt got ill in early December, so I was glad to get back in [...]

By a happy coincidence, this week’s assembly and AllStars (Y5-6) after school club tied in nicely with each other. Meadowbank school’s assemblies this term are on ‘special stories’ so to start the term off, I did Adam and Eve. This term in AllStars, I’ve decided we’re going to do the life of Jesus, in the [...]

Today, I took my first assembly on my own. I’ve done stacks before, but all with either Mike or Matt. Now that Mike’s on a 3 month sabbatical and Matt’s still ill, I’m the only one left doing them. This one was for Cheadle Heath Primary school, and the new term’s theme is ‘Helping Others’. [...]

Today was quite funny. I was speaking for a primary school assembly, based around the lines of the Lord’s prayer that go “Your kingdom come, your will be done”. Matt had shown them pictures of various leaders, the queen, Gordon Brown, George W Bush etc and asked them who the leaders were. The point of [...]

Today (my day off), I rode out to Bakewell while my two housemates drove, to meet a York friend there. Annoyingly, I took a slight wrong turn, realised, asked a portly American whether there was any decent way if I just carried on, and proceeded to follow his directions that added several extra miles to [...]