Well, after 5 weeks of feeling sheebo I finally went to the doctor on Monday. What clinched it was the colour of my snot (sorry if you are eating as you read...). You know the day-glo suntan lotion Australian cricketers smear on their noses? Well snot the colour of that was coming out of my nose. Someone informed me that that meant I had some kind of infection and would need an anti-biotic.

So, off I trotted to the Dr. I now have anit-bi's and am also taking sinu-tab which are amazing. After 3 solid days of thumping headache I was suddenly feeling almost normal again when I started the sinu-tabs. Brilliant! Anyway, I feel good again. I still have a bit of a cold but it is managable without the headache and the day-glo snot...

So, how have you been?

I have just started doing this cover to cover book - looking at God's promises. First day yesterday and this quote has already stuck out..

"Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to make ourselves forget that the world holds nothing sacred; that even the wisest and bravest and loveliest decay and die; that even the noblest ideas that men have had - ideas about love and justice and freedom - have always in time been twisted out of shape by selfish man for selfish ends. Emmaus is where we go to forget."

It comes out of Luke 24. What do you think? I think it is pretty true to say that whenever the going gets tough we walk away - the guy in the book makes the point that the two guys on the road to Emmaus were going in the wrong direction - away from Jeruaslem and Christian fellowship - in despair and grief. The very times we need to be with people.

We need to be picking up people who are walking in the wrong direction...

What do we do or where do we go to forget...

top 10 fav books (in no particular order)

1. Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
2. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. The Chrinicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (sort of cheating with 7 books...)
4. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
5. Life After God - Douglas Coupland
6. The Pearl - John Steinbeck
7. The Old Man and The Sea - Earnest Hemmingway
8. Life of Pi - (forget...)
9. Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
10. A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irvine

I have been sick for 4 weeks. How annoying is that. I just can't shift this cold and it keeps swapping symptoms - lilke one day it will all be in my chest, tyhe enxt in my head and the next all in my nose! Today my ears hurt. What is going on? I don't get it!! So irritating. I can't remember what it feels like to be able to breathe properly. Sorry to be a whinger.

On a happier note, coming home soon!! Woohoo!! Can't wait.

Hi there fellow bloggers. Online Christmas shopping and The Chronicles Of Narnia are the topics for today's discussion.

Online Christmas shopping is entirely stress free and so much cheaper than your average. A CD which would cost me £14.99 in Virgin cost me £6.99 on CD-wow and it is free p&p. You can't beat that with a big stick. Also, there are no queues, and no pushy people, and no fighting over the last one on the rail tussles. It is hassle free - like I said. All I can say is why haven't thought of it before. Well done to all you veterans out there for being smart!

The Chronicles of Narnia - I don't know if you have ever read them but I am recommending them to everyone. I have read them all a number of times and am on another run through. C.S. Lewis was a smart man. Not only was he brilliantly articulate and profound, he could also simplify it down so that kids could get it. That's what I love! The C of N can be read by little kids and be the most enchanting stories ever and they can be read by adults and the shades of meaning ring fresh and true every time. I hope CS is in heaven, I want to shake his hand.