Well now...

Its been a while since I last posted...sorry for the huge chasm of time that has past since my last post...I been revising...that's what I'd like to say but to be truely honest I haven't been revising as much as I should. Most of time I'm an a mood where I can revise for the morning then can't bring myself to revise again for the rest of the day...also the fact that I spent all of Thursday and Friday away on a canal boat on the Llangollen Canal near Chirk probably didn't help all that much...I'll explain that one later...so yeah I haven't really done as much work as I should have done...espcially when I have 3 exams next week (actually you could call it 5 exams as my 3 hour exam on Wednesday morning is actually 3 papers) so yeah if people could pray that a) God will give me the strength, concentration, etc to get myself to revise more in the days before my exams...also b) that in the exams I will do the best I can...but in both thing that I do them as if Im doing them for God...if that makes sense...

While on the subject of God recently God has worked in me and somehow given me the passion to read the Bible more...cos until a few weeks ago I was only doing my Bible meditation in the morning and that was it...but now I read a chapter in one of the gospels and do my meditation in the morning then in the evening I read a few chapters of the old and new testament and it has really been amazing to see just how easy it is and before I would sit there and say oh I haven't got the time or whatever...but I've discovered now that if only I give that time to God he seems to able able to lengthen the other parts of day and give me back the time I "miss" when I read the Bible...amazing...we serve a truly awesome God...his Name is above all names! Woohoo! Doesn't it just make you happy! The more I get to know God the more it amazes me...and yet saddens because I see more and more just how far short of the glory of God I have fallen...but God has given us the perfect sacrifice in his Son Jesus so we can have eternal life and live in his presence...wow...I stand in awe.

I got paid £210 by someone who has owed me that for about 8 months. I'm now happy for more than one reason :D

Anyway I said I'd explain why I was on a canal boat for the best part of Thursday and Friday so here goes... I have a friend (amazing I know) anyway I have a friend called Ethan Earle...I've known him pretty much since I was a week old...he's 5 months - 1 day older than me and his parents and my parents have been friends since time pretty much began...anyway Thursday was Christopher Earle's (Ethan's dad) 60th birthday. Now Carsten, Ethan's brother, owns a canal boat named Juliet on the LLangollen Canal...it is usually moored in the marina at Chirk. Anyway for Chris' birthday celebrations, the family we're going to a summer faite at the college where Carsten lives near Oswestry...then they were were going to sail up the LLangollen canal to the Lion Quays (a very nice restaurant beside the canal) have a fancy meal...then the lads were to sleep on the boat and Jaquoline (Chris' wife) and Chris' mother were to stay in the hotel. Then on the Friday we were all to sail down to Trevor which was back up the canal...on both days we were bathed in sunlight and nearly all of Friday morning I spent lying on of the top of the boat baskings in the heat...going through the tunnels was quite cool tho! On the friday we went over two aquaducts: the Chirk aquaduct and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Both absolutely outstanding...the Chirk aquaduct isn't as high as the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct but it has a viaduct carry the railway line a few yards away. That's the picture on the left. The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is possibly the biggest engineering feat I have ever seen. It is a monument engineering when it was at its best...sack the all this modern architecture, this is what engineering is about...you float 126 feet above the River Dee in the valley below. The canal itself is contained in a iron trough which stretches 1000ft across the valley...on one side is the tow path on the other side is what can't be more then a couple of inches of iron which is all that's stopping the watter and you plunging the whole 126 feet to the bottom of the valley...if there are several places in Britain I have to go to again before I die this will definately be on my list...it is truely awesome...its such a pitty that monuments like this aren't built like this any more. Why do engineers nowadays have to build things with fancy arches and things? to BritishMaybe I should become an engineer and build things the way they should be built...anyway I highly recomend everyone goes to see the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct...and if you can take a canal boat across only if you have vertigo sit on the side of the boat next to the tow path...if not...sit on the roof...you'll never forget it...by the way the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the picture on the right...


I've talked too much now and if you've got to this point congratulations you have to be incredably bored...so Im now got put up some more of my pictures and that will be it...