Christmas time reminder note

In case I forget, here is a handy note . Dates to calendar.

Schedule information about services and events that are taking place in the run up to Christmas at CBC, please put these dates in your diary and take opportunities to invite friends and family to join us as we look to celebrate together.

Christmas Service

Sunday 29th November -  Advent Creative Service (A good opportunity to invite friends and family to join us for stories, songs, craft, quizzes and a time of reflection)  If you are able to bring cakes or  biscuits to share over coffee after the service please do.

Sunday 6th December -  Family Service Led by GenR8 (Another great opportunity to invite friends and family as GenR8 lead this Christmas Service for us)  We will also be decorating our church for  Christmas after this service.

Sunday 13th December -  Morning Service to include a wedding blessing for Miranda and John Bonner, please join us as we celebrate with them

Evening Carol Service (Where an offering will be taken for Cottenham Cares to help refugees in Syrian camps)  Starting at5.30pm with soup and a roll.  Please bring along  mince pies if you can, so that we have plenty to share with people, along with mulled wine, after the service

Sunday 20th December - Christmas Communion Service

Friday 25th December - Christmas Day Family Service with Music from Music Mash

Sunday 27th December - Breakfast Service. (A relaxed service with a light breakfast for those who are able to gather after Christmas)

This year at Church we are also providing a Christmas Card board where people can place a Christmas Card for everyone in the Church.  This saves on writing lots of cards and also allows us to send Christmas greeting to everyone in our church family, with one card.  The board will be up in the church from Sunday 6th December.

Missing in the list is Supernovas Party 11th (Friday) December, sometime in the afternoon, 4:30 pm. I'm helping so I'll be there from about 2:30 anyway.

Quick Shout-out

So, not everyone is actually artistic, some people write stuff like blogs as a way of recording their knowledge for later recall. But sometimes you record and share on youtube, and if you are like me you are a you-tuber not for shares,likes or fame, but to record for later recall. But mostly for me youtube is about learning how to work with video, I love the editing of sound, static images and special effects. Who never dreamed of directing a movie? Well, to make this really happen, you need to learn, the best way is the youtube creator academy. It's a google plus group, join and start browsing about, do all the lessons in the lesson plans that appeal to you. Then get depressed due to your budget being zero!

So what? Who cares, just carry on trying to get by with less. But sometimes you will grow - like this week I even got a shout-out from a lady who calls herself T- LIN.
Roll the video https://youtu.be/m8rAKbEX1A0?t=455

Recommended to try out Cyberlink Power Director http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra/features_en_GB.html
... which has a 30 day demo mode.

Romans study

As part of Livewires, we are studying Romans - I decided to find some podcasts to listen too during the preparation workings, and well anytime I can. Podcasts are not my thing at all, so I don't expect to listen to much. But it might just stick.

Brain Caffiene

Check out coffitivity , it's an app that plays you some background sound that will help you defocus. Some people have playlists, some people use white-noise generators, and others have... Well a Spotify playlist even.

https://coffitivity.com/

I can see other kinds of applications for this background noise. OK, so.... Have you ever tried to concentrate in a completely silent room, if like me the circus comes out and your mind runs riot, this app might be just the ticket.

Helping strangers unaware

Yesterday I was out cycling with my youngest when we spotted a lost gentlemen. Or rather he spotted us. He was looking for a street just one block away so I fired up my smartphone and spoke the words to get the maps app to do it all for me. I rotated the map and showed how where to go. Epic fail.

I was only a block away. I did not walk him home, but then why should I? I mean he was only a block away? I am not responsible for the world and all of it's lost old men am I, well it was not good enough. My wife helped a lady with her shopping at the same time in the city. Carried her groceries all the way down to the river to her houseboat. Then had to find her way back to the bus stop. My meager effort was null in comparison.

Does this guy look like Fargo?

Perhaps a bit fuzzy, but is the crazy guy in this move maybe, just maybe the same person?
I'm gonna have to buy this movie and watch it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/

Historical reconstruction: Ely Cathedral

Since its something more virtual than real, I'm just going to update my real blog with a link to my other blog, which is about things geeky, but still real nonetheless.

I am making a virtual copy of Ely Cathedral, please follow the link to my other blog from more.

Terry Pratchett book list

I have to credit Douglas Adams with starting me reading as a teenager, I became a fan of his 5-part trilogy in 1985/6. I then started a brief drift into serious fantasy (Stephen Donaldson et al.) and found my first carpet-people book a year later. I tend to read in binges, completing a book in a matter of days (I used to read a book in a day, but I'm not that fit anymore.) The binge lasts for a few book, and then dries up for a whole season.

Try search in google for "terry pratchett book list" - and you get a really cool looking 'list' of books above all the regular search-engine marketing and results. It looks pretty cool:



Give it a try in google.
OK, so here is my list (in approximate order of publishing or reading) ones in RED have been read, green ones are still to be eaten.
The Colour of Magic
Truckers
Diggers
Wings
The Carpet People
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Guards! Guards!
Pyramids
Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Lords and Ladies
Small Gods
Men at Arms
Interesting Times
Soul Music
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
Carpe Jugulum
The Last Continent
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
The Last Hero
Thief of Time
Night Watch
Monstrous Regiment
The Wee Free Men
A Hat Full of Sky
Going Postal
Thud!
Wintersmith
Making Money
Unseen Academicals
I Shall Wear Midnight
Snuff
Dodger