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 Charlie Knox26, m, resident of spa, northern ireland, a thinker, who tries to be real, enjoys the company of nala(left), indebted to jesus for his grace and instruction in life and whose, amongst other things, studying sports science at UUJ. enjoy rugby a whole lot! |
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Friday, March 26, 2004 Belfast Natives Stumbled across this today. Humourous!! posted by charlie | 2:56 PM | Monday, March 22, 2004 Yes this is a late tackle but just had to happen! (in reference to that little event at Twickenam a few weeks back!) Classified Advertisements FOR SALE One chariot, (low-swinging, sweet type),in urgent need of repair (wheels have come off again). One careless owner. Was once white but now a lovely shade of green...... details from Clive, Tel.Twickenham 19-13. FOR SALE 100,000 Grand Slam t-shirts, ties & scarves - unused (choice of 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/2001and 2003/2004) Contact : RFU,Twickenham. LOST (on way to Twickenham) (i) Plan B (ii) Graciousness (iii) Bottle. Please contact : L. Daglalio, C. Woodward. MEN CHOKE IN FRONT OF LARGE CROWD 79,000 spectators watched helplessly yesterday as 15 sportsmen choked in front of them, apparently after being force-fed a large slice of humble pie. A doctor attending the scene said that the men had a medical history of this sort of thing: apparently it also happened at Wembley in 1999, at Murrayfield in 2000 and Landsdowne Road in 2001. IN MEMORIAM Slam, G : passed away, 7th Feb 2004. Sorely missed by Clive via this bloke posted by charlie | 11:17 PM | I took the test! Apparently i'm not very British, that is according to the Great British test in which i only managed to score a pretty poor 31/75. I can't say this bothers me greatly. Firstly lots of the questions were pretty abstract and secondly i suppose i feel a heck load more patriotic about being Northern Irish rather than British but i know thats a complicated business. I suppose the crux of it is that being British means having to associate with the English alot!! I feel more Celtic in nature - you know that barbarian spirit better represented in Wales and Scotland. If not in anything else i certainly feel this in rugby terms - wasn't it just great to see the Welsh giving the English a good rattle on Saturday, especially on the back of the Irish victory a couple of weeks ago!! Anyway in spite of all that why don't you test your Britishness and TAKE THE TEST on the BBC website which incidently impresses me more and more every time i go on it. posted by charlie | 11:07 PM | Thursday, March 18, 2004 Big Brother is watching you If you ever been to the states or if you live there, you'll love this site. It allows you to zoom into areas that you know and view detailed satellite images. I've had great crack locating some of the places i've stayed and been to over the few times i've been in the states. It's also fun to check out some of the famous sites from a different perspective. On the otherhand it's scary to think how much can be seen without you being aware of it.... posted by charlie | 10:16 AM | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 The tyranny of choice Choice is one of the key indicators of prosperity, happiness and hope. Those who have no choices in life have no prospect of changing their circumstances. This was graphically illustrated in a programme on BBC2 recently, which focussed on life in a remote village in Ethiopia. Even in years when there is no drought, the people survive – living and partly living, in T S Eliot’s immortal phrase – on food aid when they have it and on weeds when they don’t. This is one end of the scale in the 21st-century world. At the other is the typical high street or shopping mall. The supermarket offers 38 types of breakfast cereal; 15 restaurants vie for the custom of the hungry, the greedy and the gourmet; travel agents promote a range of holidays from Morecambe to the Maldives. You’d think that all this choice would make us happy. But a new book by the US psychologist Barry Schwartz, titled The Paradox of Choice, tells us what Christians ought to have suspected all along: that choice doesn’t neatly correlate with contentment. Indeed, the greater our options, Schwartz argues, the greater the stress. How do you choose the healthiest margarine, what to wear for next Saturday’s wedding, what kind of burglar alarm to install? These decisions not only demand our time and emotional energy, but they induce soul-searching after the event as we face the possibility that we might have made the wrong choice. How, then, should we exercise our freedom of choice? By simplifying our own lifestyles, we can kill three birds with one stone. We can relieve ourselves of stress; have more time, energy and money to give towards providing choices to those – whether in rural Ethiopia or the ‘sink estates’ of our inner cities – who see no way out of destitution; and obey God’s command to ‘loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke’ (Isaiah 58.6). To quote Bishop John Taylor: ‘let us live more simply so that others may simply live’. Helen Parry from LICC posted by charlie | 10:43 AM | Wednesday, March 03, 2004 Whizz kid Wilson, my prayer partner who is also a headmaster at a local primary school, was telling me on Sunday that he has a P7 who is going to sit his GCSE Maths exam this year because he's so far ahead. Nuts!! I'm working with 5th years a little at the minute and half the GCSE stuff still baffles me!! posted by charlie | 10:27 PM | A few more links..... Mark Goody - a mate from school blogging in Scotland. My one memory of Mark is of the very many wrestling matches we had throughout 6th form in the mornings before school began. A good spud with a very readable blog! Sky Scanner - This one was recommended by Dad. Basically it's a site that surveys domestic flight prices. You key in your origin and intended destination with some dates and Sky Scanner surveys all the airlines flying that route (including the budget airlines) and presents you with it's results. I particuarly liked the bar graph surveying a month with shows the cheapest times to fly. Neighbours - At Kirk's on Saturday night we all spent a fair amount of time trying to remember past character's and events from Neighbours. It was crazy, first of all that we all had spent so much time watching neighbours, secondly how much we all had retained (ie compared to the many more useful things we could have retained) and thirdly, that inspite of how much we remembered, how much we hadn't!! So i decided to search the web for a site that would help me remember old characters and stories. This one proved to be pretty good. posted by charlie | 10:20 PM | In today's Daily Express 'Children's book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, set in the land of Narnia, is being made into a film by Shrek director Andrew Adamson and Disney' posted by charlie | 9:45 PM | |
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