Thanks heaps to Mehrin for organising everything.
Thanks also to Gin, Jeff and Andreana for helping with the food and setting up, to Ray for making chai, and to EcoPaul for helping pack up.
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Today is my birthday. For my birthday, Andreana has given me a ‘Talking Robie’, which she found at the Camberwell Market. It doesn’t have a remote control, so it is autonomous!
Have been at NCYC, briefing some of the delegates about what we’re going to be doing for [...]
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On Wednesday my brother Adam turned 21, so I went out to the community dinner that Adam and Justin and our parents are involved with at the Ferntree Gully Guides Hall.
This is Justin toasting Adam with a piece of birthday cake:
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Very late last night, when everyone was home, we had drinks on the roof, and Ray brought out a birthday cake she’d made for me. It was shaped like Dr Pompo, on TV:
You can also see the other Dr Pompos that Ray made, one from a real pumpkin (it’s all shrivelled up now) and the [...]
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After work today Dad came over and had a look at our garden. Then Mum and Adam and Justin came in on the train, and Nomes got back from the beach and we had Chinese food for tea. Adam gave me a bootleg of the U2 show we went to. Justin gave me some [...]
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Today’s my birthday. (I’ve actually had quite a lot of unexpected birthdays in the last year, but this is the day that I was actually born on.)
Nathan gave me this:
(Explanation: Tomsy wanted me to get a mullet for his wedding, and so a heap of people were trying to get me to get a [...]
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This week is Mission Exposure Week, so we’ve got five people staying with us to find out a bit about what we do at Urban Seed, and about some of the thinking behind what we do.
Tonight they got to be part of our community dinner. Ray made a cake for Marcus, in the shape of [...]
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In 2004, I got this book for $7, at a bookshop in Ballarat:
A couple of months ago I took it to the Urban Seed staff retreat and made sure everyone read it, saying that it has stuff in it that I thought would be important for our organisation’s future.
A few weeks ago, Mark (our receptionist/director) [...]
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Why is Victoria like a doughnut? Because there’s a hole in the middle!
(A Ballarat joke, making fun of Bendigo)
Why is Bendigo a hole?
(A dysfunctional Ballarat joke, unintentionally making fun of Ballarat)
Well, yesterday afternoon we (me, Nomes, Damo and Nigel) headed out to Bendigo for Ali’s birthday party.
When we got to Bendigo we started off trying [...]
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I’m in Melbourne at the moment, so tonight (Sunday night) I went to my old church, where I was baptised four years ago.
We read the parable (or riddle, as I’ve been thinking of them) about the workers at the winery (Matthew 20:1-16), and then Mark (the pastor) got us to talk about whether God is [...]
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