A play list for a wedding

My sister in-law is getting married today, I have just finished putting together a few bits of music for the reception they include:

Groove Armada – Join Hands
Zero 7 – You’re my flame
Norah Jones – Nightingale
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Madeleine Peyeroux – Careless Love
Lux – Northern Lights

God Bless America

I watched a fantastic short film the other day called “Rich” part of a series called
NOOMA www.nooma.com with Rob Bell, the teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan.

There’s a popular bumper sticker that reads “God Bless America,” but hasn’t America already been blessed? It’s easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing “our” world as “the” world, because it’s all we generally see.

We’re constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything, and it can easily leave us feeling like what we have isn’t enough because we see people that have even more than us. But how does what we have compare to what most people in the world have? Maybe what we have is enough; maybe it’s more than enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bless and give to others.

You can purchase Nooma in the Uk @ www.eden.co.uk/shop/features/nooma_54395.html

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Sports Day

It was our companies’ annual sports day and bbq yesterday was great fun couple of IT guys decided to play with the kid’s toys!
It was lovely to get out of the office and have some fun.

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When was the last time you thought of your customers

Went to a fascinating seminar tonight by Ralph Ardill Founder of the Brand Experience Consultancy it was part of a series of design business seminars I have been involved in organised by http://www.futuresnetwork.org.uk/

The two most interesting points he raised for me where:

For a night club to be successful it has to have a door policy and what is the policy in my business.
The other bold statement was don’t be afraid to walk away from the client relationships that is not working.

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He has given me lots to mull on.

Flying away this summer think again

Well it has been another gorgeous day I listened to an interesting “Thought for The Day” on Radio Four this morning about our responsibility to climate change and how our embrace of low cost travel is continuing to destroy our environment through increased C02 emissions.

It is easy to pop out a re-cycling box but not going on holiday well there’s another story all together but that is one of the changes to

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life style our generation simply have to start considering if we are to stand of chance of looking after this amazing planet for our grand kids.

May challenge to myself is understanding more about how I can be creative in my own personal and working life at reducing my carbon footprint.
I had better get reading http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/default.ct

Golf Open

Well I had the wonderful opportunity to watch the Golf Open at Royal Liverpool Hoylake yesterday it was fantastic to see over 35,000 people out on the course enjoying the play and sun.

Saw Tiger Woods but after waiting an hour he over shot the green!

Made me think I should pick up my clubs again.

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Wildflowers

Off to the National Wildflower Centre www.nwc.org.uk this morning with some friends sounds boring but it is great. The building is stunning as well.

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Hope is a place

I have been involved in a really interesting project recently called http://www.hopeisaplace.com/ the site has been developed to get peoples thoughts and opinions of this arts and cultural neighbourhood of Liverpool. I had lunch there today and sat outside in the sun.

Some places to visit when you are there include:

http://www.liverpoolphil.com/
http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/
http://www.hopestreethotel.co.uk/
http://www.60hopestreet.com/ (My favourite restaurant)


If you get chance why not have a play around on the site.

My playlist

Don't know about you but my ipod has changed my life I am currently listiening to:

John Martyn – Solid Air
John Smith – Matchbox Man
Nick Drake – River Man
Nitin Sawhney – Tides
Portishead – Sour Times

PS Helen if you are reading this get blogging!

Google just keep getting it right

Last week I customised my Google homepage. It allows you to put all the links you use on your Google homepage so I spent a hour on Saturday morning busily customising my preferences. They never cease to impress me with not only the quality of content they provide but the simplicity in which I can use it.

A walk in the park

Had the pleasure of a day off today with the kids enjoyed walking round the park in the sun and playing on the swings.









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Everything is Spiritual

One of my heros Rob Bell Pastor of Mars Hill www.mhbcmi.org has just started a tour in the USA called Everything is Spiritual if you fancy being inspired download one of his sermons from the site I guarantee it will change your life.
He founded a church in Grand Rapids Michigan about five years ago and
now has a congregation of over 10,000.

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The Def Jam Story

On Saturday nigth there was a fantastic documentary on radio two http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/index.shtml?logo about Def Jam one of worlds most influential rap and hip hop label fascinating story well worth a listen.

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