No, just no..

There is an article on the BBC today about people being buried with their mobile phones. More worryingly, people now apparenlty sometimes want to be cremated with them.

The concept of being scared that you'll be buried alive is fair enough where burials must happen quickly, but cremating a phone is just bizarre.

Whether you're religious or not you surely can't believe that having a phone amoungst your ashes is going to help you in some way? And how do people get so attached to their phones that they even consider it?

There's more to life!

Get thee down the pub and talk to people face to face!

How rumours start

While talking about the Moonwalk

Stefan: So when’s the big one?
Me: 20th May

Andy: You’re getting married?

I am still alive!

Things seem to be easing off. The clock changing has meant that I’m actually awake, and the 18 mile walk on Saturday has left me with no lasting injures except for strained abs. I really wish I knew how I’d done that as I was expecting sore legs...

The Moonwalk

In May I'm going to be walking 26.2 miles.
Through London.
At night

It's for Breast Cancer causes and I'm looking for sponsorship..

so if you feel so inclined follow the link below...

My Fundraising Page

I know it's mad and a long way to go. My training hasn't been going so well recently due to it being rather cold a lot of the time at the moment. So any helpful incentives would be much appreciated! :-)

Quotes

One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

- Marcel Pagnol
Critiques des Critiques

Or in my case, they begin with a simple problem and suddenly develop a horribly complicated solution that noone wants to build. Apparently exploding pipes are generally considered to be a bad thing. Some people have no sense of fun. Just because it's big enough to drive a landrover with a canoe on top through this pipe changes all the safety parameters (oh come on, we have to scale it all somehow!).

so why wouldn't Jesus be hit by a bus...?

What would happen if Jesus comes again and lands in the middle of the road. Why wouldn’t he get hit by a car?

One of the kids was praying that Jesus didn’t come again as he thinks it will just cause war as all the Jews will get left behind. He doesn’t think he’s good enough to go to Heaven so he doesn’t want to find out just yet. And does Hell really exist anyway?

There’s a tendency to answer those questions with a ‘don’t be silly; it won’t happen like that’. But to be honest, they’re valid questions and I wasn’t really sure how to address them. I don’t see that there is any reason to not be apprehensive about the second coming. It is an unknown. How can we possibly know what will happen? If we trust God then we know that it will all be ok, but my experience is that even knowing that it’ll work out doesn’t make the process a whole lot of fun. God’s idea of a good thing tends to be quite similar to very hard work as far as I’m concerned.

I admit I’m no expert on this – I figure I’ll work it out when it happens – but what do you say to a kid who is curious and for whom this is a really big problem without sounding patronising?

Finally, a diet I can handle...

Times Article

Brilliant. I'm off back to bed.