Far away
Spent this past week on holiday with Richie & Simon up north. We went skiing, hotpooling and visiting and it was all super nice. I got some really nice clothes up north – a maroon leather jacket for $30 from Rotorua Salvation Army, which Simon picked out for me; and some brown flares for $60 from the seconds shop in Taihape. Jono’s 21st was pretty phat too, aside from some unbelievably reprehensible behaviour on the part of yourstruly. Started moving into new flat yesterday, feels like i’m getting married to five strangers. Slept in till noon, missed church and choir. Worked with youth groupers on plays for the Brooklyn Festival. Got church this avo which i’d rather miss but have promised the choir director i’ll turn up for practise which is immediately before the service. Apparently we lost some sport on the weekend.
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Very very reprehensible. Lucky you didn’t get into more trouble than what you did.
Unfortunately I don’t know enough about rugby union to rub it in. What is Brooklyn Festival?
Matt, I’m worried about your statement regarding church which you say you’d “rather miss”. Why? Why would you want to miss church? Especially considering you missed the morning service.
cos – i had quite a bit of other stuff that needed doing for shifting house, would have liked to have some kind of restful afternoon. i know it’s the obvious whine, but i don’t feel like i get much out of church services recently. i like singing and seein other christians but it all feels really disconnected from the rest of life, not equipping/empowering or whatever. no doubt that’s my fault as much as it is the structure’s.
Yes it is your fault.
Thanks also for the opportunity to talk about rugby. Yes, the All Fags lost on sat night. we all knew the all blacks play am expansive game using the full width of the field, but what was going to happen when they found somebody who could combat that? The answer was given on sat night, and it wasn’t a good one. imho (in my humble opinion), the reason we lost was that we had no plan B. the abs only tactic was to spin it out wide as fast as possible and hope that the back three could let rip. it didn’t happen. the aussies had us well and truly covered out wide and i hoped at half time john mitchell would have revealed plan B. it was the apparent lack of another plan that lost us the game. the gaps in the aussie defense were through the ruck. even the commentators were saying the abs needed to drive it up the middle on and the couple of occassions that they did, they made ground! sadly, however, john mitchell must have told them at half time to keep sending it wide, because that’s exactly what they did, to no effect. the other problem was that when things did look promising, we dropped it. its hard to catchthe ball though when you’ve been tackling for 70% of the game. Perhgaps if wales had beaten us we may have been in better shape for the semis. my final word is, that arrogant prick john mitchell has to go, and so does rueben thorne. the rest of the team needs to either smoke some mary jane or find some other way to escape reality. (tana will probably have a good stash in his suitcase)
Carlos Spencer needs a bullet
If it wasn’t for carlos we wouldn’t have scored that one try. john mitchell and rob deans need bullets. ‘Journey’ my arse john.
matt, I like the love that is richly present in your comments section. The friendly banter that is in such view is just a pleasure to read and soo encouraging. hehe.
On your ‘church’ note, it was a real shame that you were not there on sunday morning. Mr Goris had a fantastic sermon. It was Cadet sunday so all the Cadets & Calvinettes were sitting up front where the youth normally do. Mr Goris said he was going to come down to there level for the message and he came and stood down in front of the congregation and that was great. His sermon was all about what we are hungry for. Are we hungry for things that make us happy or are we hungry for The Word. It was a real good message that spoke to my heart and I have heard others say that it spoke to them too, young and old. Anyways, I hope that this was more of an encouragement rather than a telling off.
choice man
yep i was disappointed that i slept in as well
daves right. the sermon was great. consider yourself admonished, matt.
sorry, i’m not wrong
pride comes before a fall
course it does
what’s the point of that comment?
anon wuss
your fall will come if you continue to be proud.
repent of your arrogant ways.
i think if you ask the people around me you’ll find my ways aren’t arrogant